Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA Aug 9, 2017
Of guns and cutlery: Memories of the war, from the Netherlands to Japan
A chance rediscovery leads an author to reflect on the lessons to be learned from the devastation of two continents.
Hans Brinckmann
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Commentary / World May 23, 2007
Leave 'patriotism' out of Constitution
In October 2005, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) approved draft proposals whose main thrust is to revise the Preamble and Article 9 of Japan's Constitution. The new preamble includes "the obligation to support ourselves . . . with love for the country and ...