A Study On The Amendment Of Japanese Constitution

As the important achievement of postwar democratic reform, Japanese Constitutionhas great significance. It established the economic statehood and unarmed neutralitymodel of development. It lay foundation for the post-war Japanese politics as wellas the foundation of Japan’s national development and security strategy. For othercountries, it is a victory of the word peace, which is a guarantee to all the countriesthat no longer a war. Article9of the Japanese Constitution supervised by Americastipulates that Japan should renounce war and the threat of force, not keep all warstrength, and not recognize the right of belligerency. According to the Constitution,postwar Japan is supposed to be a country to abandon the war and the unarmedself-defense. However, Article9is not abided by. Its evolution is closely related withthe changing of international and domestic environment.US-Soviet relation shiftedfrom coordination to confrontation, and then America implementing global cold warstrategy led to a major change of its occupation policy in Japan, whose post-wardiplomatic and security lines were also steered by the right-wing conservativegovernment.Article9is soul of Japanese Constitution. How to explain It should be, what is theAcademia and the government’s position. Especially war strength, self-defensedefinition of concepts is a key to the interpretation of article9which related to aseries of problems such as reality collective self-defense forces of constitutionalityand sent abroad. It stops Japanese rearmament. This paper still trying to comb theJapanese government dominated post-war constitution process of change. At the sametime, the motivation and background of the post-war constitution movementretrospective analysis also shows that Japan’s domestic political and socialenvironment of right deviation. As an important part to promote the development ofconstitutional issues, constitution-amending movement have great influence on the evolution of the consciousness of the national constitution. The result is that Japanesenational stand and international commitments were negated, and interpretation ofArticle9was changed by government so that they could legalize rearmament, thenamend the constitution and finally break the bonds of the post-war system.American is an important factor of this issue. Japan-US alliance is seen as the pillarof Japan’s security. The adjustment will have far-reaching influence on Japan’ssecurity and diplomacy and the posture of global security strategy. And the changingof constitution is not only related to the adjustment of Japan-US Alliance in post coldwar era,but also to the east Asia relations and regional landscape, which cannot beignored.