Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), holding its first party convention on March 30 in Osaka, adopted a new party platform. Its call for a drastic revision of the Constitution carries the danger of undermining the basic constitutional principles on which the postwar Japanese stands, including the no-war principle. It is imperative for people to fully consider what will result from the party's extreme stance on the Constitution.
Characterizing the Constitution as the Occupation Constitution, the platform says that the Constitution imposed an "unrealistic common illusion of absolute peace" on the Japanese people and that the party will lead to "true independence of the state and the people" by drastically revising the supreme law.
The platform expresses a belief among Nippon Ishin no Kai members that the United States forced the current Constitution on Japan. But the platform ignores the fact that the Japanese Diet deliberated on the Constitution and even made a revision to the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution, although the U.S. occupation authority drafted the Constitution.