Japan is growing likelier to cast away pacifist Constitution

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AFP , Tokyo

The pace is picking up in the movement in Japan toward changing the country's pacifist post-war Constitution, which is seen as hampering the country's ambitions to play a role on the international stage.

Opinion polls by major newspapers to mark Constitution Day last month all agreed that for the first time in half a century a majority of Japanese were in favor of revising the 1947 Constitution imposed by the Americans during the Allied Occupation at the end of World War II.

Even 15 years ago, these revisionists were just a tiny minority. Today, a large proportion of Japan's younger generation -- including more than 60 percent of the 20 to 30 age bracket -- who have never known a Japanese war, want constitutional change.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/06/24/2003176330

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1. Probably not a good idea...

considering most of the countries in Pacific rim still hate the Japanese for what they did in WWII. If Japan revises its constitution tension will rise in the region.

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2. Boy George has totally screwed up the international scene.

Watch the world remilitarize preventively against "unilateral" American power. The long-term consequences will be serious.