Religious agency conducts signature drive misleading public into supporting abolition of pacifist Article 9

The Tokyo Shrine Agency closely connected with the rightist group has collected signatures from shrine visitors in support of constitutional revision while concealing its true aim of abolishing the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution.

After ‘sympathy budget’ started, over 20 trillion yen of taxpayers’ money given to US military

Without the “sympathy budget” and other financial assistance from the Japanese government, the U.S. forces would not have been able to maintain a large number of troops across Japan.

Abe wants ‘emergency clause in Constitution’ to smooth way for more constitutional revisions

Having already drastically changed the interpretation of the Constitution, the Abe government is now trying to actually rewrite the Constitution with a proposal to introduce an emergency clause.