Some time ago, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated, and his constitutional revisionist faction won more than two-thirds of the majority of the Senate. This means that Japan's chances of breaking through the peace constitution are another step, because the peace constitution stipulates that the amendment of the constitution must be approved by two-thirds of the members of the Diet.
However, Japan's attempt to amend the Constitution has also aroused many opposition in Japan. According to reports, "Monuments of the Nine Articles" have been established throughout Japan to reaffirm the spirit of the Nine Articles in order to resist the pressure of constitutional revision. A figure 9-shaped stone monument located 150 kilometers northeast of Tokyo Station near Kita Ibaraki Castle on the Pacific coast stands tall.
This "9" represents Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, and in the 77 years since the end of the war, it is Article 9 of the Constitution, which stipulates that the Japanese people will forever give up the existence of national power to wage war, so that Japan will not be involved in the war. Now the Japanese government is trying to amend the Constitution, which naturally causes dissatisfaction among peace-loving people in Japan.
A 75-year-old elderly man, ItoMan, said: "Given that the constitutional revision movement seems to be increasing, I think it is necessary to build a stone monument now. He was a member of the "Kita Ibaraki Kujo Society" and erected a stone monument on his homestead. From a young age, Ito began to reflect on the Japanese military, politicians, and people involved in the Pacific War through reading.
The Kita-Ibaraki Kujo Society is the core organization of the Japanese scholarly community that opposes constitutional revisionism. In 2003, then-Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi offered to amend the peace constitution to upgrade Japan's "Self-Defense Forces" to the "National Defense Forces." This provoked strong opposition from the Japanese left, so on June 10, 2004, the "Nine-Point Society" was proclaimed to oppose the government's constitutional action.
The initiators of the "Nine-Point Society" were also highly respected people in Japan at that time, namely Inoue Natsu: a famous playwright, novelist, and president of the Japanese PEN Association; Tsumehara: Expert in ancient Japanese history; Kenzaburo Oe: Novelist, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature; Yasuhiro Okuhira: Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, renowned constitutional scholar; Shimi Oda: Writer and social activist; Kato Monday: Famous literary critic; Hisae Sawado: Famous novelist, essayist, and reportage writer; Shunsuke Tsurumi: Thinker, philosopher, renowned researcher of popular culture, social activist; Mutsuko Miki: Former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, President of the Asian Women's Friendship Association.
The average age of these elderly people is as high as 76 years old, the oldest is Mutsuko Miki, 88 years old; The youngest person is Kenzaburo Oe, 70 years old. In accordance with their own conscience and morality, the older generation of Japanese people decided to establish the "Nine-Point Society" in the hope that Japan would avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
At that time, Japan also blew up the "Nine-Point Club" whirlwind, and all walks of life in Japan responded one after another, and successively established the "Nine-Article Association" in the industry field. Famous directors and screenwriters established the "Nine-Article Society of Filmmakers", and medical staff formed the "Nine-Article Association of Medical Workers"... The "Nine Articles" will contact the "Constitutional Protectors" from all walks of life in Japan by all means and use this to "defend" the "Article 9" of the Constitution from being amended, thus promoting peace and stability in East Asia.
After Abe's assassination, it was the closest Japan had ever been to amending its constitution. The Chinese side also responded to this, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin once said that the Chinese side is willing to work with the Japanese side to continue to develop good-neighborly, friendly, and cooperative relations between the two countries in accordance with the principles established in the four Sino-Japanese political documents. It is hoped that the Japanese side will earnestly draw lessons from history, adhere to the path of peaceful development, and win the trust of its Asian neighbors and the international community with practical actions.
But now Japan's right-wingers, completely disregarding the facts and not cherishing the efforts of Japan's older generation of peace-loving people, are trying to push Japan to the brink of "madness" again. At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Japan began to frantically test, while advocating China's "threat theory", while looking for the United States to ask for "nuclear materials", but whether Japan can really amend the constitution mainly depends on the attitude of the United States, if the United States chooses to turn a blind eye, then Japan is very likely to take this dangerous step, then for the whole of Asia, it is absolutely not good news.