-Article 9-
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and
order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of
the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international
disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land,
sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
From the Japanese Peace Constitution Preamble
We the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives
in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for ourselves and
our posterity the fruits of peaceful cooperation with all nations and the
blessings of liberty throughout this land, and resolved that never again
shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of government,
do proclaim that sovereign power resides with the people and do firmly
establish this Constitution.
Government is a sacred trust of the people, the authority for which
is derived from the people, the powers of which are exercised by the representatives
of the people, and the benefits of which are enjoyed by the people. This
is a universal principle of mankind upon which this Constitution is founded.
We reject and revoke all constitutions, laws, ordinances, and rescripts
in conflict herewith.
We, the Japanese people, desire peace for all time and are deeply conscious
of the high ideals controlling human relationship, and we have determined
to preserve our security and existence, trusting in the justice and faith
of the peace-loving peoples of the world. We desire to occupy an honored
place in an international society striving for the preservation of peace,
and the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance for
all time from the earth. We recognize that all peoples of the world have
the right to live in peace, free from fear and want.
We believe that no nation is responsible to itself alone, but that
laws of political morality are universal; and that obedience to such laws
is incumbent upon all nations who would sustain their own sovereignty and
justify their sovereign relationship with other nations.
We, the Japanese people, pledge our national honor to accomplish
these high ideals and purposes with all our resources.
Yumi Shibahara Shibuya
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