- Article 9:
- 1)
- Aspiring sincerely to an international peace
based on justice and order, the Japanese
people forever renounce war as a sovereign
right of the nation and the threat or use
of force as means of settling international
disputes.
- 2)
- In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding
paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as
well as other war potential, will never be
maintained. The right of belligerency of
the state will not be recognized.