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 (Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, 1947)
