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This is the last straw, the real enemy JAPAN!
Japan's PM wants to rewrite pacifist constitution
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wants to rewrite the country's post-World War II pacifist constitution, including the clause that forever renounces war, in an interview.
Abe, 52, is a long-time advocate of revising the constitution. But it is the first time since he became prime minister in September that he has made clear his intention to rewrite the war-renouncing Article 9.
"I believe this article needs to be revised from the viewpoint of defending Japan," Abe said told the London-based Financial Times.
"Japanese people should themselves write a constitution that befits the 21st century," he added.
The US-imposed constitution bars Japan from maintaining a military ever again, although the country skirts the rule by calling its troops "Self-Defense Forces".
"The current constitution was written before Japan became independent after the war," Abe said, adding that Japan was now expected to play a greater role in international security.
Abe, the first Japanese premier to have been born after World War II, said he would strive to achieve the revision during the six years that he expects to stay in office.
Domestic polls show overwhelming public support for a revision. The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan favors such a move, but views on how far to deviate from Japan's official pacifism are mixed.
Under Abe's predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) drafted a new constitution last year, seeking to give its military a solid legal basis and leeway to fight abroad.
The LDP draft kept intact a paragraph of Article Nine which says Japanese people "forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes."
But it cut out another paragraph in the clause which says "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained."
Abe also stressed the importance of better ties with China, saying: "Especially in economics, we both need each other."
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wants to rewrite the country's post-World War II pacifist constitution, including the clause that forever renounces war, in an interview.
Abe, 52, is a long-time advocate of revising the constitution. But it is the first time since he became prime minister in September that he has made clear his intention to rewrite the war-renouncing Article 9.
"I believe this article needs to be revised from the viewpoint of defending Japan," Abe said told the London-based Financial Times.
"Japanese people should themselves write a constitution that befits the 21st century," he added.
The US-imposed constitution bars Japan from maintaining a military ever again, although the country skirts the rule by calling its troops "Self-Defense Forces".
"The current constitution was written before Japan became independent after the war," Abe said, adding that Japan was now expected to play a greater role in international security.
Abe, the first Japanese premier to have been born after World War II, said he would strive to achieve the revision during the six years that he expects to stay in office.
Domestic polls show overwhelming public support for a revision. The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan favors such a move, but views on how far to deviate from Japan's official pacifism are mixed.
Under Abe's predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) drafted a new constitution last year, seeking to give its military a solid legal basis and leeway to fight abroad.
The LDP draft kept intact a paragraph of Article Nine which says Japanese people "forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes."
But it cut out another paragraph in the clause which says "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained."
Abe also stressed the importance of better ties with China, saying: "Especially in economics, we both need each other."
I tell you this, the moment this happens I am obligated to notify you that a state of war will exist between Thorn and the outlandish nation of JAPAN!!!!
No more will I allow their evil influence into our country I shall join whichever party will allow me to ban their books, movies, cartoons, comics; their propaganda, that seeps into our children's minds and makes them think that they are harmless... they are not, they are cloners, they clone everything and make it more efficient and streamlined, well soon that will include cloneing us, and therefore subjagating the rest of the world under their rule, I WILL NOT HAVE CORPERATE PIG SONY and the like DICTITATING TO ME WHAT I CAN DO FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES......... HOW I SHOULD LIVE MY LIFE.....
I tell you not, My fellow countrymen will not have fought and died for not, if I have anything to say about it.
Who will join me in my condemnation of Japan!?
Thorn ANGRY!!!!
japan 
Its just like the Rape of Nanjing all over again
I'm fairly sure China will manage to beat me 
I only went for the obvious.
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