Minju Joson Wednesday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This tells about Japan's intention to actively intervene in international disputes, not confined to national defense.

By exercising the right to collective self-defense Japan seeks to acquire the right to take part in a war, in other word, to lay a legal groundwork for realizing its ambition for militarist reinvasion, the commentary says, and goes on:

Political figures of Japan are now working with their sleeves rolled up to fulfill this political task.

In June the Japanese defense minister at a meeting of the commission of foreign affairs and defense of the House of Councilors blustered it is necessary for Japan to have capability to attack on enemy bases for defending it from other countries' ballistic missile "attacks," adding striking at enemy bases comes within the scope of "self-defense" in view of international law and interpretation of the Constitution.

On June 20, the Diet of Japan revised the basic law on atomic energy which had been maintained for 34 years by adding to it the provision that Japan shall use atomic energy for "ensuring state security," thus laying a legal ground for nuclear weaponization and providing a legal guarantee for military activities in space.

Japan mulls completely giving up the "Pacifist Constitution" in the future and this issue has become considerably mature in the political circle of Japan.

The above-said commission referred to the exercise of the right to collective self-defense in a document concerning the country's future, an indication that the Japanese reactionaries are going to stake Japan's destiny on a war.

Japan would be well advised to stop at once the moves for militarist overseas expansion, not oblivious of the lesson taught by its defeat.