# How Japan is hollowing out its pacifist constitution

https://mins.news/en/item/22856

- CGTN, 2026-08-15 04:03 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-15/How-Japan-is-hollowing-out-its-pacifist-constitution--1PCA4vOOeKQ/p.html?UTM_Source=cgtn&UTM_Medium=rss&UTM_Campaign=China

> Japan’s Article 9 renounces war and prohibits maintaining military forces, but the article argues that rising defense spending, increased arms imports, eased export restrictions and long-range missile deployments have eroded its pacifist principles. With formal amendment difficult, right-wing forces have expanded the permitted scope of military action through reinterpretations and new laws.

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