The U.S. asks Japan to let the "Self-Defense Forces" take part in the joint military exercises which it stages with the south Korean puppet forces every year, said Japanese related to the government on Feb. 22.

This signifies the U.S. pressure on Japan to ignore the "pacifist constitution" which bans Japan's exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

Dennis Blaire, former administrator of the State Intelligence Agency under the present U.S. administration, when interviewed by Kyodo News, made a straightforward remark. He said that Japan once followed the line of attaching importance to light arms equipment and economy which was unsound one after a war. He also said that Japan should reexamine Article 9 of its Constitution.

It is very exceptional for the former VIP of the U.S. administration to make such remarks about the revision of the Japanese Constitution.

As already known, the Japanese Constitution has been called "pacifist constitution" as it contains Article 9 which bans Japan's right of belligerency and overseas troop dispatch, access to war potentials and its exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

The conversion of the "pacifist constitution" into war constitution is a strategic goal the U.S. has long pursued to use Japan as an advanced base and a shock brigade for invading Asia.

"Armitage Report 2" worked out by the U.S. experts from the Republican and Democratic parties in February 2007 called on Japan to revise the Constitution and readjust the defense capability and the law on overseas troop dispatch.

A report drafted by the U.S. Congressional Research Service last year said that the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution the draft of which was written by the U.S. is a block lying in the way of closer defense cooperation between the U.S. and Japan. The report stipulated that Japan can cooperate with the U.S. in actions against the third party through collective self-defense.

In the meantime, Japan has wantonly violated the "pacifist constitution," looking for an opportunity to retrieve its defeat in the war.

Nobusuke Kishi, a preceding prime minister, openly said during the period of the Iketa Cabinet, at a meeting of the House of Representatives: "Japan's right to self-defense should be expanded as far as south Korea and Taiwan."

The Japanese reactionaries enacted the "law on the situation in the surrounding areas", the "law on supporting anti-terrorism war" and three bills related to "contingency" after the end of the Cold War, putting subsidiary legal mechanism in place to render the "pacifist constitution" defunct.

The establishment of the U.S.-Japan military integration at the "U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee" in May 2006 was an official declaration that the SDF can advance to any part of the world in coordinated operation with the U.S. forces even though it can not launch overseas aggression alone.

In May 2007 Japan adopted the "Law on Referendum" stipulating that "pacifist constitution" may be revised through referendum. According to it, the Liberal Democratic Party and other political forces of Japan have pushed forward the search for a way of adopting war constitution in an organized manner.

The U.S. calculates that it can not realize its strategy for military control over Northeast Asia including the building of a missile shield, completion of the triangular military alliance grouping the U.S., Japan and south Korea and the establishment of a war posture for coping with emergency on the Korean Peninsula, unless the "pacifist constitution" is converted into war constitution in Japan.

Japan regards it as a golden opportunity for turning itself into a military giant and staging a comeback to Korea.

The "pacifist constitution" faces the increasing danger of structural dissolution due to the U.S.-Japan tie-up in their ambition for aggression.