What is the article 9 argument in Japan?
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Article 9 says that Japan will never ever declare war on anyone ever again.
The people who say they should keep it say that the last time Japan was declaring war willy nilly, it resulted in their entire island burning down and getting nuked. Besides, being peaceful is a good thing and it should stay in the constitution.
The people who say they should remove it say that WW2 was a very long time ago, and that people are different now, and it makes no sense that a strong nation should keep that thing in the constitution.
Complicating this is that the people who got invaded, enslaved, and genocided by the Japanese feel that they were never particularly sorry. And that removing that clause would be another sign of how not sorry they were.
Also those people also don’t want a repeat of the last time the Japanese invaded them, so they’ll be buying/building more war stuff. And everyone pointing more war stuff around is not a good thing for peace.
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