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TOKYO, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Japan's pacifistic Constitution has played an important role in the country's postwar development and to forcibly revise it will do no good to Japan, said Akira Ishii Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Goedkoop , a historian and professor emeritus of Tokyo University.
Japan's current Constitution, drawn up under the Allied occupation following World War II, is best known for its Article 9, by which Japan renounces its right to wage war and promises that "land, sea Adidas Superstar Slip On Goedkoop , and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained."
Ishii said the Constitution, time-tested in the past 70 years, has been well accepted by the Japanese people.
"Most people in Japan believe that the pacifistic Constitution have played a big role in the fast development of Japan after World War II Adidas Superstar Foundation Goedkoop ," he said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
"The war-renouncing Constitution has also been the premise for Japan to be reaccepted into the international community after World War II," he added.
Revising the Constitution has long been a goal of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Ishii said that the LDP has been advocating constitutional revision as part of its platform since the party was founded in the 1950s, because it believes that the Constitution was imposed upon Japan by the United States.
As for the Abe administration, which has been keener on revising the Constitution than the previous governments, Ishii said that one of the reasons for Abe to push for constitutional revision is to secure support from the conservative forces in Japan.
He also pointed out that the Abe administration has been pushing for de facto Constitutional revision by changing constitutional interpretations. For example Adidas Superstar 80s Goedkoop , Japan has forcibly enacted the controversial security laws to expand the role of the Self-Defense Forces overseas despite strong public oppositions.
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