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Question; What is the significance of Article 9 in the Japanese Constitution? What are the implications of the moves to change it?

Introduction
It is said that Article 9 of Japanfs Constitution has been one of the controversial issue in Japanese post war politics. The so-called gpeace clauseh is also known as most controversial clause, which consists of two paragraphs. The first paragraph declares renunciation of war and the second declares renunciation of military forces and other war potential.
However, Japan has military forces called the Self Defence Forces. To avoid the appearance of militaristic revival, the each department of the forces were named the Ground Self Defence Force, the Maritime Self-Defence Force, and the Air Self-Defence Force, instead of the army, navy, and air force. However, although they do not have long range missiles or nuclear weapons to attack other countries, instead, they are very well equipped and are still one of the most powerful......

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