This article republishes a passage originally posted on October 4, 2015.
Through Masayuki Takayama’s argument, it examines under what intention Article 9 of Japan’s Constitution was conceived and why it was given a structure that made constitutional revision virtually impossible.
Drawing on MacArthur’s testimony, the analogy of Rome and Carthage, and the essence of Occupation policy, it explores the underlying design to weaken Japan.
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It is precisely because of that intention that they could not allow Japan to cast off Article 9 on its own and become a normal nation.
That is why it was made “impossible to revise,” to an extent that would astonish even professors at provincial universities.

The following is a passage I published on October 4, 2015.
The greatness of Masayuki Takayama lies in this….
At the same time….
He brilliantly proves just how fraudulent, sloppy, childish, and malicious the people represented by Kenzaburō Ōe really were.
In Ōe’s case, because of his profession, he was nothing more than an extreme Westernophile who had immersed himself in foreign books….
It also proves, one hundred percent, the correctness of my own arguments in which I have said that the writers beneath him are not even worth critical discussion.
And the childishness and stupidity of their foster parent….
That is, of their ringleader, the Asahi Shimbun, are by now beyond description.

The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Article 9, which proclaims the renunciation of war, had also long been regarded as Shidehara’s idea because of MacArthur’s statement at the U.S. Senate joint hearing on military and foreign affairs in 1951: “Kijūrō Shidehara proposed it, and I instinctively rose, shook his hand, and could not conceal my emotion.”
Of course, the theory that it was imposed by the United States remains deeply rooted.
The phrases “non-possession of military forces” and “renunciation of belligerency” are identical to the surrender terms Rome imposed on Carthage, which it hated from the bottom of its heart.
Rome stripped ships away from Carthage, whose existence depended on trade, turned it into an agricultural state, and in the end destroyed it.
The United States likewise tried to dismantle the heavy industry of industrial Japan and turn Japan into an agricultural country.
Anyone who has read Roman history can understand the intent of the United States.
“Crush Japan and turn it into some nameless third-rate country.”
James Auer also supports this view, making clear that “MacArthur had issued ‘Directive No. 1’ ordering that a provision which would become Article 9 be included.
Its content was that Japan should be allowed to possess no military capability of any kind, including for self-defense” (Sankei Shimbun, April 16).
On the surface it looks like a peace constitution, but its substance is different.
What comes through is a strong will to weaken Japan to such an extent that even Korea could destroy it.
It is precisely because of that intention that they could not allow Japan to cast off Article 9 on its own and become a normal nation.
That is why it was made “impossible to revise,” to an extent that would astonish even professors at provincial universities.
To be continued.