{"id":7565,"date":"2026-04-18T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/7565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:25:06","slug":"peace-out-is-takaichi-putting-japans-pacifist-constitution-on-the-chopping-block-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/7565\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace out: is Takaichi putting Japan\u2019s pacifist constitution on the chopping block?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/sanae-takaichi?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a> is pursuing the first ever revision of her country\u2019s post-World War II pacifist constitution, a step that observers say is likely to be welcomed in Washington and condemned in Beijing.Takaichi\u2019s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured a historic two-thirds majority in the National Diet\u2019s lower house in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3342793\/sanae-takaichi-poised-big-win-snow-hit-japan-votes?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February\u2019s election<\/a>, passing the threshold needed to pass constitutional amendments without other parties\u2019 support.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAn independent constitutional amendment by the hands of the Japanese people is our party\u2019s long-cherished goal,\u201d Takaichi said at the LDP\u2019s annual convention on Monday. Among the policies adopted at the event is the goal of submitting draft amendments to legislature.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI want to greet next year\u2019s party convention with a clear prospect for proposing an amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Takaichi did not specify which parts she wants to revise, but the most likely \u2013 and controversial \u2013 move would be to change Article 9, under which Japan renounces war and the use of force in international disputes. Other potential amendments proposed by the LDP in the past include emergency powers, electoral district changes and education reforms.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan\u2019s post-war constitution was written mainly by US officials and has remained unchanged since coming into force in 1947.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The LDP, which has been in power nearly continuously since its founding in 1955, has always advocated changing the constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pursuing the first ever revision of her country\u2019s post-World War II pacifist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1017,172,549,12,6735,6733,14,8,17,3341,2240,6736,6734,3411,296,488],"class_list":{"0":"post-7565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-article-9","9":"tag-asahi-shimbun","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-constitutional-amendment","13":"tag-hormuz-strait","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-japanese","17":"tag-japanese-prime-minister-sanae-takaichi","18":"tag-liberal-democratic-party","19":"tag-liu-jiangyong","20":"tag-mong-cheung","21":"tag-national-diet","22":"tag-shinzo-abe","23":"tag-taiwan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}