The Central Executive Committee of New Japan Women\u2019s Association <\/b><\/p>\n
On July 1, 2014, in complete disregard for the will of the sovereign people, the majority of whom express their opposition in every opinion poll, the Abe Cabinet enforced a decision to permit Japan\u2019s exercise of the right to collective defense.\u00a0 The decision reverses the traditional government position that under Article 9 of the Constitution clearly stating “renunciation of war”, “non-possession of force”, and “denial of belligerent rights”, the use of such right is impermissible.\u00a0 It is a historically outrageous act intended to transforming Japan into a \u201ccountry waging war abroad\u201d and \u201cwilling to kill and to be killed\u201d.\u00a0 The New Japan Women\u2019s Association protests against the Cabinet decision with strong indignation, and calls for its immediate retraction. The Central Executive Committee of New Japan Women\u2019s Association On July 1, 2014, in complete disregard for th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinfujin.gr.jp\/up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo make such constitutional reinterpretation after a single cabinet decision through closed-door meetings of the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and Komei Party, without listening to people\u2019s opinion or holding Diet discussions is a coup d’\u00e9tat<\/a> that infringes upon constitutionalism, which is totally unacceptable.\u00a0 One of the reasons why the Abe Cabinet rushed through the decision can be clearly seen in the U.S. announcement to welcome the decision saying that the new Self-Defense policy \u201cwill enable Japan\u2019s Self-Defense Forces to engage in a wider range of operations and make the U.S.-Japan alliance even more effective\u201d.
\nPrime Minister Abe Shinzo said in a press interview that Japan would never engage in war, but it is an outright lie misrepresenting the fact.\u00a0 The Cabinet decision this time reversed the long-held official view of Article 9, allowing Japan to use armed force not only in case of armed attack against Japan, but also in the event of an attack on another country with which Japan has close ties.\u00a0 The ruling coalition insists that they will permit the use of the right to collective self-defense only to a \u201climited extent\u201d.\u00a0 But since who determines if there is an \u201cobvious danger or not\u201d is the government of the time, so that there is no brake on the use of armed force.\u00a0 Moreover, the decision expands \u201cthe areas of SDF\u2019s supply and other logistic support\u201d activities, which has been limited to \u201cnon-combat\u201d areas to combat areas.\u00a0 It also removes restrictions on the uses of weapons by SDF.\u00a0 Once two brakes put on support activities, \u201cban on the use of armed force\u201d and \u201climited to non-combat zone\u201d, are removed from the previous armed SDF troops will become the target of attacks, and will be dragged into combat.\u00a0 This is as clear as day.
\nThe Cabinet decision cannot be implemented on its own before revising laws.\u00a0 Our real struggle for peace has just begun.\u00a0 The Abe Cabinet intends to introduce bills for revising the Self-Defense Forces Law, Peace Keeping Operation Act, and other relevant laws for the worse to the extraordinary session of the Diet this autumn, so that necessary legislation will be completed in time for the re-revision of \u201cthe Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation\u201d before the end of this year.\u00a0 However, many women and people in Japan do not want it.\u00a0 More than 100,000 people protested outside PM Abe\u2019s office, publicity campaigns, rallies and demonstration, are being carried out nationwide, and over 200 local assemblies have passed resolutions, opposing or demanding careful considerations to the Cabinet decision.\u00a0 Clearly, it is Abe Cabinet and warmongers who are backed into a corner.
\nThe New Japan Women\u2019s Association, upholding the opposition to adverse revision of the Constitution for the resurgence of militarism as one of the founding objectives, expresses its determination to do its utmost to stop the attempt to make Japan a war-waging nation.\u00a0 For this, we will further expert our power of organizing grass-root movements all over Japan voicing \u201cNever to send our children and grandchildren to battlefield\u201d.\u00a0 Together with a wide-range of women and people, we demand a retraction of the Cabinet decision and mobilize massive actions to block the move to revise the relevant laws for the use of collective self-defense.
\nStatement: NJWA Strongly Protests against the Cabinet Decision to Drastically Change Japan into a \u201cWar-Waging Country\u201d and Demands the Decision Be Retracted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"