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05-29-2011, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by tangomike View Post
Its the Japanese constitution that forbids a standing army and the right to declare war. The USA has no say in if they can have a army or not, thats in the hands of the Japanese.
Well considering the US essentially wrote Japan's constitution, and it's extremely inflexible, never having an amendment since it was adopted, I'm not too sure how well that would fly.


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