IF Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party wins a two-thirds majority of the Diet’s Upper House in Sunday’s elections, will he move to amend Article 9 of Japan’s present Constitution?

Yes, he would. This is the fear of Japanese who love their “Peace Constitution.” Many people of other countries also abhor the re-emergence of a militarily mighty Japan—like the country of Emperor Hirohito that attacked Pearl Harbor, invaded China and the rest of East Asia and the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia, and fought beside Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy against the Allied Powers.