This section proposes a three-step plan to eradicate the lingering Tokyo Trial mindset. It argues that the clearest evidence of postwar deception lies not in Article 9 but in the Japanese Constitution’s preamble, which openly denies national sovereignty and reflects its imposition under occupation.

2017-06-15
The following is a continuation of the previous section.
My three-step plan to eradicate the “disease.”
Accordingly, I devised what I call a three-stage plan to eradicate this disease.
The first stage is to establish an “Independence Day.”
From what I have seen and heard, there are many young people who do not even know that Japan was once occupied and deprived of its sovereignty.
We must make them aware that there was a period of about seven years, from August 14, 1945 to April 28, 1952, during which Japan had no sovereignty.
Fortunately, Independence Day would fall on April 28, so if it were established, the Golden Week holiday would be extended and no one would oppose it (laughs).
We must also teach them what it actually means to lack sovereignty.
One cannot maintain embassies, raise the national flag, or sing the national anthem.
All imports and exports require permission from the occupying forces.
Freedom of expression is subject to censorship.
No laws whatsoever can be enacted or enforced without the permission or orders of the occupying authorities.
The constitution is no exception.
To claim that a constitution, which should be created through the exercise of sovereign will, came into existence at a time when Japan had no sovereignty at all—promulgated on November 3, 1946, and enforced on May 3, 1947—is nothing short of fraud.
The clearest expression of that fraud appears not in what is commonly referred to as Article 9, but rather in the preamble of the constitution itself.
It is an extremely important text that plainly states that Japan still lacks sovereignty, yet few people focus on it.
The preamble reads as follows.
“The Japanese people desire lasting peace and are deeply conscious of the high ideals controlling human relationships, and we have determined to preserve our security and existence, trusting in the justice and faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world.”
This amounts to arbitrarily assuming that all nations other than Japan are peace-loving.
Entrusting not only the safety but even the very survival of the people to other countries means that this nation has no sovereignty.
There could be no clearer denial of sovereignty.
Furthermore, the promulgation text of the constitution includes an imperial rescript stating, “I rejoice deeply that the foundation for the construction of a new Japan has been established in accordance with the general will of the Japanese people,” and so forth.
That rescript was, of course, written under compulsion, and there was no such thing as the “general will of the people.”
At the time of the occupation, any discussion of the constitution was strictly forbidden.
May 3 is celebrated as Constitution Day, but it would be more appropriate to rename it “Constitutional Humiliation Day.”
It should be remembered and commemorated as the day when, while sovereignty remained stripped away, a constitution that was not an expression of sovereignty was imposed upon the nation as its constitution.
The clearest proof that Japan’s constitution was not the result of an exercise of sovereignty is that, after this so-called new constitution was enacted, many Japanese were executed within Japan without recourse to that constitution or to the criminal law based upon it.
General Tojo and others were put to death inside Japan without reference to the constitution.
This is the most unmistakable evidence that Japan had no sovereignty.