Japan after Defeat: Recovery & Dependence on the US
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Summary
The root is the defeat in the Second World War and a constitution drafted during the occupation.
Article 9 bars Japan from maintaining armed forces, which leaves its security dependent on the treaty with the United States and nothing else.
Attempts to amend the constitution run into both legal obstacles and public feeling.
Key points
The constraint is written into the supreme law
This is not a policy a government can change. It is a constitution designed to be hard to amend.
Security dependence sets foreign policy
A country without its own military has fewer diplomatic options than the size of its economy suggests.
The Japanese themselves do not agree
Article 9 has both defenders and opponents, which is why the matter has stayed unresolved for decades.
The defeated are still paying for it
Eighty years on, the structure put in place during the occupation is still operating.