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(回答先: “最大の受益者は米国” 自民改憲案で米各紙 “海外派兵に道”（しんぶん赤旗） 投稿者 gataro 日時 2005 年 11 月 26 日 09:16:59)
Ruling party seeks to alter constitution
By Carl Freire
Associated Press
Published November 23, 2005
TOKYO -- Japan's ruling party marked its 50th anniversary Tuesday with a proposed constitutional change that could give the nation a more assertive international military presence.
The pacifist constitution's first alteration since its adoption in 1947 would create an official role for the Japanese armed forces. The language of the revision would allow those forces to assist military allies and help with armed international peacekeeping, according to outside experts and members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan maintains the small domestic Self-Defense Forces under the current constitution, which renounces war and bars the country from using military force in international disputes.
A 1992 government interpretation of the constitution allowed troops to have non-combat roles in peacekeeping operations abroad. About 500 non-combat troops are helping in Iraq, and a contingent of ships is giving logistical support to anti-terror operations in Afghanistan.
The proposed revision by the LDP, which has ruled almost continuously since its founding in 1955, still renounces war but would allow the nation to use troops for self-defense and international peacekeeping.
Party members and outside observers said Japan could take part in armed peacekeeping and joint military efforts with allies such as the United States.
The change is part of a general push by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government to raise Japan's military and diplomatic profile. The LDP also has long campaigned to replace the constitution, which was drafted by U.S. military occupiers after World War II.
Koizumi, addressing party loyalists at a Tokyo hotel, credited his ruling party with guiding Japan through a half-century of peace and prosperity.
The prime minister urged Japan to match its status as the world's second-biggest economy with more cooperation with the international community.
"We need to take up the challenges of strife and conflict that may face international society over the next 50 years," he said.
Any constitutional change must be approved by two-thirds majorities in both houses of parliament and a majority of the population in a referendum.
Copyright © 2005, Chicago Tribune
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