On May 13, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun hosted a regular press conference. A reporter asked: Since the Gao City Government announced the push to amend the constitution, there have been a lot of opposition from all walks of life in Japan, and even the largest anti-war protests in decades. "Fear", "worry", "vigilance" and "anger" became the high-frequency words among the people interviewed. Media comments stated that amending Article 9 of the Constitution would shake Japan’s self-identity as a “peaceful country” and trigger social divisions. What's the spokesperson's comment on this?
Guo Jiakun said that history is a mirror. In the first half of the 20th century, the Japanese people witnessed their country step by step toward militarism, turned into a war machine, and suffered the consequences of war. They best understood the significance of the Japanese government's promise to never fight again. Now the Kaohsiung City Government is trying to abandon pacifism, abandon the fundamental prerequisite for the international community to accept Japan after the war, and tear up the "peaceful country" consensus that the Japanese people have cherished for generations.
Are Japan's right-wing forces pushing for military expansion and breaking through the pacifist constitution, international law, and domestic legal regulations to create a so-called "war state"? Do you want to reignite the war in the Asia-Pacific region? Under the guise of "self-defense", right-wing forces exaggerate the so-called "external threats", kidnapping the livelihood and well-being of their own people, and impacting the peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific region.
The largest anti-war protest in Japan in decades shows that people from all walks of life are increasingly aware that returning to the path of militarism is a path of no return. All peace-loving countries in the world and the Japanese people should jointly resist Japan's right-wing forces' rash "remilitarization" actions and jointly curb Japan's "new militarism" from becoming a danger.
(CCTV reporters Zhao Jing and Zhang Xuesong)
