TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s coalition government has decided to “reinterpret” the postwar Japanese constitution. According to Article 9 of the constitution, drafted by American lawyers in 1946, when Japan was under Allied occupation, Japan renounces “war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”
东京—日本首相安倍晋三的联合政府决定“重新解释”战后宪法。根据由美国律师起草于1946年的该宪法第九条，当日本处于盟军占领状态时，日本放弃“将战争作为国家主权以及将威胁使用武力作为解决国际争端手段”的权利。重新解释后，日本将能够在日本人安全受到威胁时使用武力支持盟国。