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To: skeeter

ok thanks alot.


14 posted on 01/21/2005 2:44:55 PM PST by Claytay
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To: Claytay
From Globalsecurity.org:

"Japan is in the unusual position of being a major world economic and political power, with an aggressive military tradition, resisting the development of strong armed forces. A military proscription is included as Article 9 of the 1947 constitution stating, "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes." That article, along with the rest of the "Peace Constitution," retains strong government and citizen support and is interpreted as permitting the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), but prohibiting those forces from possessing nuclear weapons or other offensive arms or being deployed outside of Japan."

16 posted on 01/21/2005 5:19:54 PM PST by skeeter (OBL "Americans" won't honor any law that interferes with their pocketbooks)
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