Article 9 of Japanese Constitution:
“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.
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.”
Vancouver Save Article 9 (VSA9):
The VSA9 was established in May, 2005 with the purpose, together with
several thousand such organizations in Japan, of making contributions
to the movement to stop the Japanese government from changing Article
9. The VSA9 attempts to persuade people of many nations to adopt such
an article in their constitutions. Currently having over 160 members
-Canadians, Japanese, and other nationals. VSA9 is carrying out various
campaigns – collecting signatures for a petition to the Japanese
government, and sending peace messages to the world.
Jonathan Manthorpe:
Mr. Manthorpe has been The Vancouver Sun’s International Affairs
columnist since 1998 and a foreign correspondent for 30 years. He was
posted in Africa and Europe. He was a political correspondent for the
Globe and Mail and then a daily columnist for the Toronto Star. He grew
up in Toronto and trained as a journalist in Britain.
He came to Vancouver in 1998 after five years as the Southam News Asia
correspondent based in Hong Kong from where he travelled and wrote on
events throughout East, Southeast and South Asia.
He has won the Mitchener Award for journalism and several international
prizes for his writing. In 2003 Mr. Manthorpe was appointed a member of
the Canada Japan Forum which advised two prime ministers on bilateral
relations. He is an external director of the McRae Institute at
Capilano College.
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is a fundraiser for Article 9 World Peace Conference to be held in
Japan in May ’08, and for other activities to broaden the movement.
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| IN PARTNERSHIP WITHCanadian Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (CWILPF);
Peace Philosophy Centre; Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’
Human Right Committee (GVJCCAHRC); Vancouver International Centre for
Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A); Asian Studies Department, Langara College;
Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research, Liu Institute for
Global Issues, University of British Columbia; Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War;
BC ALPHA. |
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