Article 9 Essay

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The Threats Of Passing The Article 9
On September 1, 1939, the greatest tragedy in human history started. The Empire of Japan, Germany and Italy started World War II to covetously try to dominate the whole world only just because of their selfish desires. Especially the Empire of Japan, invading China was not able to fill out its enormous hideous “stomach,” so they spread the fear of death to South East Asia which made the whole Pacific become a huge battlefield. The countless horrible things the Empire of Japan did was only for one goal, POWER. However, evil can never prevail over good. Eventually by dropping nuclear bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the World War II came to an end. And as an aggressor, one of the most severe punishments of the Japanese war criminals is Article 9. According to foreign law specialist Sayuri Umeda, “Article 9 of the Constitution renounces war and prohibits Japan from maintaining the war potential” (Umeda). Which means Japan would never be able to have military power and use it to threaten another country again. …show more content…

This is the big opportunity to “bring” the U.S back to East Asia, because now Japanese military forces are able to fight abroad to assist the U.S and other allies if they were attacked, although it would be limited. According to BBC, for example, “that Japan could now shoot down a North Korean missile fired at the U.S. and provide logistical support to South Korea if Pyongyang invaded, but could not deploy Japanese troops to Korea”. Now with new version of Article 9, Japan became the most powerful and useful ally of the U.S in East Asia. On the other hand, for East Asian countries, it is not a “delightful” news, especially for China. Depense on the history of Japanese invasion of China in World War II and the rival relationship between the U.S and China, it only could lead to more international stress in East

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