Sentence examples for a pacifist constitution from inspiring English sources

It does, after all, have a pacifist constitution.

Japan has a pacifist constitution restricting military activities overseas.

After the second world war, America imposed a pacifist constitution on the defeated Japanese.

Japan, although it has a substantial military force, is saddled with a pacifist constitution.

A pacifist constitution would have ruled out the existence of armed forces completely.

They seem radical by Japanese standards, however, and would mark the first laws of this kind since Japan adopted a pacifist constitution after the second world war.

The bills have been championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who contends that Japan – which adopted a U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution after its defeat in World War II – needs to be able to come to the aid of allies, particularly America, under the doctrine of "collective self-defense".

This month the cabinet approved a reinterpretation of the pacifist constitution to allow a limited right of "collective self-defence".

A panel proposing new interpretations of Japan's pacifist constitution released a report a day before the latest Godzilla flick hit screens around the world.

A DEBATE over its pacifist constitution has grabbed the headlines, but you can learn a lot more about Japan's defence strategy by looking at how it plans to spend its military budget over the next five to ten years.

This would mean, in an ideal world, that Japan should revise its pacifist constitution after a national debate, led not by a government of chauvinistic revanchists but by a more liberal administration.