The constitution is to protect the people
from the power of the state.
For this reason, anyone in power at the
time repeatedly demands constitutional amendment. The Constitution of Japan is
based on the democracy of the United States, and has been thoroughly examined
by the Japanese people involved in the establishment of the Constitution of
Japan at that time. @The debate over the revision of
the Constitution has come up again, but the point is in the emergency clause
and the concentration of power. Japanese people should defend the Peace
Constitution and maintain an exclusively defense -oriented policy so that it
will not become a totalitarian nation like China and North Korea.
1.
The constitutional amendment debate is a power struggle between "prioritizing
the people" and "prioritizing the country." (Lawyer, Twitter).
2. "The
Constitution of Japan is based on the basic value of respecting each individual
rather than the nation. (Article 13 of the Constitution) However, after xxxxxx,
it seems that each individual is not respected as an individual and as a human
being. In the first place, the Constitution has its existence value in limiting
the power of the state so as not to violate the freedom of the people, and xxxxxx
does not understand at all the basic value of such a Constitution. "
"Looking at the history of the world's constitution, it is
clear that the constitution was born to acquire human rights and to protect the
human rights of the nation. In many countries, citizens bleed and acquired the
constitution. In Japan, the current constitution was eventually born by the bleed
of the people. Human rights cannot be obtained without hard fight. It is
something that will be acquired through the struggle for human rights "(Constitutional
scholar)
3.
In recent years, there have
been conspicuous cases in which executives of ministries and agencies who have
spoken straightly to the administration center have been transferred
intentionally. Civil servants are ministers of the entire nation, and not administration
of the time. (newspaper article)
4.
The issue of extension of the
retirement age of prosecution executives that occurred this year is that the
top prosecution executives who are responsible for carrying out internal
reforms may be dominated by politics and may neglect to unravel the truth of
suspicions related to politics. (Former prosecutor, newspaper article)
5. "If Japan
doesn't change, Japan will collapse. Looking at Japan's share of the world's
GDP (gross domestic product) in terms of purchasing power parity, it peaked at
9% in 1991 and is now just over 4%, so it has decreased to less than half. It
fell from 1st to 30th in the international competitiveness ranking of business
schools of IMD. In 1989, Japanese companies accounted for 14 of the world's top
20 companies by market value, now its zero. Don't you think it's bad at all?
(Top of the university, economic newspaper)
6. "The
independence of (Japanese) newspapers is under serious threat because of the
Specified Secret Protection Act, continued government pressure, and the press
club system." US State Department
2016 Global Human Rights Report
7. Chapter 10 of
the Constitution, Article 97 of the Supreme Law, requires people to work hard
to uphold this Constitution. "The basic human rights that this
Constitution guarantees to the Japanese people are the result of mankind's many
years of efforts to obtain freedom, and these rights have endured many trials
in the past and can be violated by the people of the present and future. It was
entrusted as a permanent right. "
8. Totalitarianism:
One of the ideas or political systems that does not allow the existence of
political parties that oppose the government and prohibits individuals from
disagreeing with the government. States that adopt this regime are usually
dominated by an individual, partisan or class, have no restrictions on their
authority, and strive to regulate as much as possible on all aspects of
national life, both public and private. In
political science it is an extreme form of authoritarian regime. Usually,
unlike mere dictatorship or despotism, not only "the whole interest is
prioritized over the individual's interest", but also the personal life of
the individual is positively or forcibly subordinated to the whole. The antonym
of totalitarianism is individualism, and the antonym of authoritarianism is
democracy. (Internet information)
** When someone criticize the Japanese government, hundreds of thousands
of organized ordinary Japanese people will target him/her and strong acid
gas is sprayed for him/her, so the individual name and group name of the
source are not listed.
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