The following is from a series of columns by Yoshiko Sakurai that appeared on the front page of the Sankei Shimbun on May 3.
This article also proves that she is a national treasure defined by Saicho and a supreme national treasure.
Correct the Flaws in the Current Constitution
Looking back on the present, we may say: "In 2021, we will have a new constitution.
The Japan-U.S. summit meeting in April 2021 was the beginning of a significant change in postwar Japan.
Will Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga be regarded as a grand vizier who realized the national interest at that time or as a practical man who lacked a national outlook?
It will depend on whether or not he fulfills the Prime Minister's pledge, which will discuss later.
Both at home and abroad, Japan is in the midst of its greatest postwar crisis.
In Japan, the supply and vaccination of vaccines against the new coronavirus have started, but the situation is the lowest among the seven industrialized countries.
Japan's lack of a national strategy for vaccine production highlights the country's vulnerability.
In addition, the Constitution of Japan does not include an emergency clause, so the government has no power of command or enforcement.
The government is entirely unable to exercise its national functions in response to the coronary disaster.
On the outside, Japan faced the expansion and threat of China.
Mr. Davidson, then commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warned that China would invade Taiwan within the next six years. Still, there are indications that the U.S. presidential election and Taiwan's presidential election will coincide in 2012, making the situation imminent.
The Taiwan crisis is a Japan crisis.
China's Maritime Police Bureau, deployed in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, has become a full-fledged part of the People's Liberation Army by exploiting a hole in Japan's law.
There is no doubt that the revision of the Maritime Police Law is aimed at Japan.
China is not only convinced that the Maritime Self-Defense Force cannot win a modern naval battle in which long-range, supersonic anti-ship missiles are fired on a massive scale but also underestimates that in the event of an emergency, the U.S. will lose its military bases in the Western Pacific due to Chinese attacks on U.S. bases in Japan (Toshi Yoshihara "Chinese Navy VS Maritime Self-Defense Force" Business-sha）
China is working to ensure that these military strategies are implemented in space, ground, ocean, and deep sea.
One example is its plan to control space by connecting its space station, Tiangong, scheduled for completion in 2010, and a lunar base to base stations on the ground.
It held the Japan-U.S. summit in April was held under these circumstances. The prime minister pledged that Japan would strengthen its defense capabilities and emphasize the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
In a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a leading U.S. think tank, during his visit to the U.S., the prime minister also made clear to China that he would not make concessions on universal values such as sovereignty, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, and that he would "take the Japan-U.S. alliance to new heights.
This series of pledges by the prime minister has profound implications.
And now it is time to implement them.
Neither the prime minister's resolution nor his pledge can be implemented without fundamentally changing Japan's postwar system.
Unless Japan breaks away from the postwar system that has avoided military affairs, including the revision of Article 9 of the Constitution, and becomes an independent nation with a strong will, everything will be an empty promise.
When the United States and China are locked in a struggle over whether to become a democracy or an authoritarian dictatorship, the prime minister has pledged that Japan will seize this opportunity and be reborn.
It will not be easy, but only if he does it will he become a grand vizier.
I want to pay attention to the two crucial decisions that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has made so far.
The first is the refusal to appoint six academics as candidates for membership in the Science Council of Japan. The second is the cabinet's decision to issue a government report stating that the term "military comfort women" should be replaced by the more appropriate term "comfort women.
At first glance, the two issues appear to be separate, but they are fundamentally linked.
The Science Council of Japan, which does not allow military research, only views Japan's existence as a nation in a negative light.
The expression of "military comfort women," which is contrary to historical facts, denies the progress of Japan's history and unfairly demeans it.
These are examples of the anti-Japanese liberal idealism that has occupied the political and speech space.
Only the prime minister can superimpose these cases on the flaws in the current Constitution and correct them from its very foundation.
The two cases inexplicably bring to light are the rampant denial of the nation and Japan in postwar Japan.
And this is also a flaw in the current Constitution.
The Constitution of every country stipulates that it should cherish the motherland, but in Japan, as the preamble of the Constitution makes clear, there is no nation.
The Japanese people are supposed to "love peace" and entrust their lives to the international community, full of "justice and faith," not to the nation.
It is clear that the Science Council of Japan's idea of denying military research stems from the Constitution.
The real-world situation is far removed from the spirit of our Constitution, and the economy, the new coronavirus vaccine, human rights, and the environment are all evaluated within the framework of security.
Of these, the issue of human rights is an essential diplomatic "weapon."
Japan, which has nurtured a peaceful civilization, will never tolerate the suppression of Uyghurs.
Japan should make a strong protest against the Chinese government with the international community and join the sanctions.
On top of that, in order to fulfill the pledge in Washington, USA, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the sea around Japan and protect the territory.
On May 1, a Chinese Navy frigate sailed northward between Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture and Taiwan, entering the East China Sea.
Five days earlier, the aircraft carrier Liaoning passed between Okinawa Island and Miyako Island in a six-ship formation, accompanied by missile destroyers and other strike groups.
Since December 25, 2016, it is the seventh time that an aircraft carrier and strike group have passed through the "first island chain" connecting Okinawa to the Philippines, which China considers being the most significant barrier to its maritime expansion and has made it a long-held desire to breakthrough.
Aware that Japan, as the keystone of the two island archipelago lines, is the biggest target for China, it must hasten to prepare for contingencies in the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture) and Taiwan.
One example is the revision of Article 25 of the Japan Coast Guard Act, which denies the Coast Guard the ability to function as a military force.
Isn't it Prime Minister Suga's role to encourage the LDP to revise the unbelievable situation where the revision of Article 25 has been postponed within the LDP?
The way to fulfill the pledge in Washington, DC, and become a genuinely independent country is to solve security issues one by one, such as the Science Council of Japan and the comfort women issue, and approach the constitutional amendment as much as possible.
I look forward to witnessing the power of the Prime Minister's words and actions.
