After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
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On the other hand, the culture of modern Japan, which implied being thoroughly open to the West or at least that impeded understanding by the West.
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In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.
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After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
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From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
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