An Appeal to Citizens of Japan on the 60th Anniversary of the Constitution's Enforcement We have to defend Article 9 of the Constitution. We have to get in the way of the Abe administration as it wreaks havoc on the Constitution. We have to shatter the ruling coalition's ambition of turning Japan into a warring nation.
　　　　We cannot allow ourselves to forgive Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his aim of destroying our democratic form of government and the rule of law in the name of reinterpreting the Constitution. If Japan, ever the client country of the U.S., should exercise its right of self- defense, the truth is that Japan's Self Defense Forces will become America's shield.

"One word of warning keeps 70 disasters at bay." An Indian saying

Sixty years have passed since the enforcement of Japan's Constitution. This span has been, roughly speaking, a good era for Japan.
　　　　For sixty years, Japan has lived in peace. It has not fought a war. Many times, the U.S. government has asked us to join in its wars, but we have yet to accept the invitation. That's because of Article 9 of the Constitution. Without Article 9, Japan's youth would be mobilized as the minions of the U.S. military.
　　　　The Japanese must again live in peace. The Peace Constitution is a necessary tool to achieve this goal. We must protect our Peace Constitution.
　　　　The Abe coalition government wants to revise this irreplaceable Constitution and turn Japan into a warring nation, ready to join the U.S. military in any war around the world. Prime Minister Abe is in denial about postwar Japan; he advocates getting rid of the postwar regime. This is the wrong path for us. The Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito Party support Abe as he leads us down this path and are helping him solidify his power base.
　　　　New Komeito party leaders sometimes talk of alternatives to Abe's plans, but this remains just lip service as the party walks step for step with Abe and the LDP. It's as if Komeito creates a smooth walkable path for LDP instead of muddying up that path and slowing the relentless march. When the elections roll around, Soka Gakkai ― that religious election organization ― puts its formidable vote-getting machine into motion and supports first Koizumi and now Abe.
　　　　The LDP and New Komeito are attempting to make very important national decisions within the two parties alone. Whether it's revision of the Fundamentals of Education Law, the very way Japan conducts referendums or other important bills, the coalition is taking state power into its own hands and deciding Japan's course as if the opposition didn't exist. This reasoning is a sort of coalition fascism.

　　　　The reason the Abe Cabinet is so obsessed with Japan exercising its collective right to self-defense is that it wants the Japanese military (the Self-Defense Forces) to serve as the minions of the U.S. military in action all over the globe. Look behind the scenes of recent actions taken by authorities in the Abe Cabinet and you'll find the Bush administration and Japanese politicians, bureaucrats and so-called experts who are blindly devoted to that very same administration.
　　　　We absolutely cannot allow the youth of Japan to be sent to battlefields for the U.S. military. No matter what, we have to defend Article 9 of the Constitution.
　　　　We must get off this reckless course the ruling coalition government has put us on. To do this, we must make sure there is a reversal of power when the July 22 upper house elections arrive.