They don’t want to live there, but they want their government to continue the ethnic cleansing of the
native population of the Old City. And the New York Times just finds that yawnable.
Prominent in the international press that past month has been Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s
latest push to have the nation’s constitution amended to support a more belligerent foreign policy.
The Japanese people, to their credit, have organized massive protests in opposition to the government’
s rising militarism.
While revision of the constitution has been and remains a top priority for Abe’s administration,
former envoy Shunji Yanai feels that the matter is simply too pressing to be allowed to continue
through the appropriate legal channels. Revising a constitution can take years, after all, and in the
meantime, the prohibitions against starting wars or getting involved in other peoples’ wars would
remain in place. That is why Mr. Yanai has been appointed as the head of a committee to seek legal
loopholes that would allow the government to further erode the interpretation of that portion of the
constitution.
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