"I'm not a pacifist, I've never been a pacifist," he said.
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There is much that might have impressed the great pacifist.
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Hence Mr Abe's unpopular drive to rewrite Japan's pacifist constitution.
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In 2032, society has reached a state of pacifist utopia.
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Japan elections Is Japan about to abandon its pacifist ways?
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He is a pacifist of ideological convenience rather than principle.
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But when has Trump ever played the tempered pacifist before?
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Because of their pacifist nature, they are often captured as slaves.
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And there was even a more pacifist interpretation of the scene.
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Aries energy lives for the fight while Libra is the pacifist.
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And Mike, a pipe and slippers pacifist in a nursing home.
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The pacifist strain in both nations could severely disrupt alliance efforts.
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Sanders is neither a radical anti-imperialist nor a committed pacifist.
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Even the Vietnam war was good for pacifist Japan, generating demand.
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Even if we suppose that most Buddhists, or members of any other religious group, really do hold beliefs that are pacifist and tolerant, we have no reason to expect that they will really be pacifist and tolerant.
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I also became a pacifist, which fitted in well with my feminism.
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And even then it's not exactly pacifist, there's still lots of punching.
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Amending the charter's pacifist Article 9 would be hugely symbolic for Japan.
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"I'm a pacifist, I don't like protesting," says Karina, cradling a baby.
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"He has never been a pacifist, never renounced armed struggle," he says.
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Ultimately, Mr. Abe wants to revise the pacifist clause in the Constitution.
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Noah was, even then, according to friends, a pacifist and a freethinker.
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James was a pacifist who avoided the army because he abhorred violence.
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The world is divided into the interventionist camp and the pacifist camp.
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Unlike the pacifist Zweig, Hoffmannsthal and Strauss publicly supported Austria's war effort.
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Japan's military spending has risen in recent years despite its pacifist constitution.
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"The Christian faith always entails a pacifist culture," Father Tojeira told me.
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Japan's pacifist Constitution limits its ability to participate in international military coalitions.
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Today, it means having pacifist leanings, and the answer is SIT-INS.
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And yet you can't exactly call him a pacifist (though maybe a pacificist).
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It's clever, and often very fun to watch skilled pacifist play at work.
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This year he announced plans to rewrite the constitution's pacifist clause by 2020.
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Thus, Game of Thrones is less pacifist than the books it's based on.
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Mr. Corbyn has never changed his views, which are essentially pacifist and Marxist.
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As a portrait of misplaced love and pacifist ideals, "Red Joan" isn't terrible.
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Ann Lee joined the Shaker movement, a pacifist sect of Christianity, in 1758.
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In 2015, he said during a CNN debate that he's no longer a pacifist.
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It is also heightening the debate over whether Japan should amend its pacifist constitution.
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We've seen Morgan transform from a non-violent pacifist to a vengeance-seeking murderer.
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The fall in support endangers his long-cherished goal of revising Japan's pacifist constitution.
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But over the last two decades it has departed from its strictly pacifist course.
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Japan maintains a pacifist constitution that limits the country's forces to defensive purposes only.
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Mr Corbyn is, in fact, very far from the cuddly pacifist of Glastonbury lore.
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Japan, although it has a substantial military force, is saddled with a pacifist constitution.
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But nearly none of Abe's policies, including revision of the pacifist Constitution, poll well.
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He has repeatedly commended the pacifist Constitution written by the American occupiers in 1947.
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A chop-socky action sequence built around a would-be pacifist was undeniably funny.
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The budget deliberations come as Mr. Abe's government is reconsidering the country's pacifist stance.
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We also advocate a pacifist foreign policy and our economy's environmental and sustainable transition.
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King John is a sweet pacifist who's asleep while his wife orchestrates a war.
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So too is a stronger defence posture, pushing the bounds of Japan's pacifist constitution.
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These individuals brought with them a nonviolent, pacifist and deeply spiritual form of Islam.
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But being a pacifist country is easy when security is guaranteed by someone else.
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But a space pacifist is here to debate me about that in a world exclusive.
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Either way, Tomohiro continues Schmoe's laudable tradition of pacifist construction, in opposition to deplorable destruction.
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The danger is that he will get bogged down in changing Japan's pacifist constitution instead.
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"While he accompanied his parents to the Friends' meetings, he was no pacifist," Byrne writes.
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For decades theirs was an underground enterprise, run by pacifist hippies and murderous drug cartels.
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This kind of pacifist endgame would align perfectly with the themes of Game of Thrones.
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We don't subscribe to this bullshit, pacifist, love and light, everybody just get along thing.
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Article 9 of Japan's pacifist constitution, if taken literally, bans the maintenance of armed forces.
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It meant speaking out, too—even, as her pacifist father had hoped, getting into politics.
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The answer he gave is simple, what one would expect from an activist and pacifist.
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Natsuo Yamaguchi, Komeito's leader, for one, has warned against tampering with the constitution's pacifist clause.
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Members of the Mennonites, they were pacifist in their politics and conservative in their Christianity.
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They also oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's moves to revise Japan's post-war pacifist constitution.
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Neither does free public college, or campaign finance reform, or a more pacifist foreign policy.
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Will his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, also a pacifist, have the standing of his father?
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The prince has repeatedly commended the pacifist Constitution, written by the American occupiers in 20113.
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Well, to be honest, this is probably a bad time to say I'm a pacifist.
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That could open the path to his long-held goal of revising Japan's pacifist constitution.
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Japan briefly considered building a "defensive" nuclear arsenal in the 1960s despite its pacifist Constitution.
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Though many said it was not enough, his pacifist message helped rehabilitate Japan's reputation abroad.
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He considers himself "a pacifist," but he gets angry when it's time to get angry.
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The government designated the area a "non-combat zone" to avoid violating the pacifist constitution.
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Should a pacifist community accept help from friends offering to stave off violence with violence?
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He was a pacifist and was vehemently opposed to Bush's war in the Persian Gulf.
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In short, the country's missile defenses are limited, and the pacifist Constitution limits military action.
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He has been less than enthusiastic about Abe's project of revising the post-war, pacifist constitution.
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He is likely to push for changes to Japan's pacifist constitution that legitimise Japan's armed forces.
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Another was in 1932-35, when the party was led by a committed pacifist, George Lansbury.
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I'm not an absolute pacifist, but there are few circumstances when military force is called for.
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He's unsettlingly comfortable with high-ranking Nazis, but his platform is a reasonably sympathetic pacifist isolationism.
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Abe hopes to adopt a tougher military stance against Pyongyang, altering a decades-long pacifist approach.
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But his conservative governing coalition failed to win enough seats needed to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution.
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Its foreign policy is constrained by a pacifist Constitution and a one-sided alliance with America.
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"I'm not a pacifist," Mr. Coyle, a former head of Pentagon weapons testing, said in an interview.
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Ishiba, 61, favors a more drastic change to the constitution's pacifist Article 9 than Abe has proposed.
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With their pacifist stance and American roots, the Witnesses are at the opposite end of that spectrum.
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The Algerian novelist and teacher Mouloud Feraoun, a pacifist who supported Algerian independence, saw the fear firsthand.
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We talked for a while about his origins as a pacifist and how he approaches his resistance.
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"I'm not saying we're heading for war with the United States, because Mexico is pacifist," he said.
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Abe says he'll push for big changes to Japan's defense strategy and its longtime pacifist stance. 3.
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Abe's ruling party, the conservative LDP, is leading a controversial push to revise Japan's pacifist postwar constitution.
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"They have decided to skip the pacifist, smiling kind of protests, and instead smash windows," she said.
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Whether Abe could then achieve his goal of revising Japan's pacifist constitution, however, is far from clear.
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And in 2020 Mr Abe will try to change Japan's pacifist constitution, though it will be hard.
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Fallout 76 players are using the radiation from nuclear weapons to circumvent restrictions on murdering pacifist players.
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As thoughtlessly as I had supposed myself to be a pacifist, I gave myself permission for violence.
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Howe was a pacifist and saw the holiday as a chance to unite women and rally for peace.
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Many of the demonstrations and marches of the 1940s-70s were orchestrated by openly gay, pacifist Bayard Rustin.
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That mean amending Japan's post-World War II constitution, which commits the country to a pacifist foreign policy.
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Though pacifist in culture following the traumas of the second world war, it invested heavily in territorial defence.
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Therefore to act in a brutal manner against pacifist intellectuals who confront state power would be counter-productive.
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Mr Abe has been right to interpret Japan's pacifist constitution more flexibly to enable him to help America.
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It also broke a pacifist taboo with Germany's first military engagement since the second world war, in Kosovo.
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Meanwhile, the Japanese government should renew its support for its pacifist constitution and the ideology that underlies it.
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He vowed to maintain Japan's pacifist and nuclear nuclear-free principles, but did not promise signing the treaty.
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It spends only1% of GDP on defense, but this is a byproduct of a pacifist, U.S.-imposed constitution.
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And honestly, if I had made my career as a pacifist actor, I would never have worked, ever.
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Abe wants to revise the pacifist constitution to clarify the military's ambiguous status, but the public remains divided.
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Such a majority is needed to start the process of revising Japan's post-World War Two pacifist constitution.
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Rather, as Mr. Bruni observes, he is the "tempered pacifist," perhaps fearful of what will be publicly revealed.
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But then in 2013, he cited Nazi "techniques" as a model for how to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution.
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Those who have said they will join the new party are in favor of revising the pacifist Constitution.
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The party has come a long way since its founding as a pacifist "anti-party party" in 1979.
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While Gandhi's death in 1948 galvanized a young Dr. Sharp to begin preaching nonviolence, he was no pacifist.
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Warren aides said they're not adopting a pacifist posture; they expect that some attacks will require a response.
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He also wants to revise the nation's post-war, pacifist constitution to clarify the ambiguous status of its military.
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Suga said the goal of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of revising Japan's pacifist, post-war constitution remained unchanged.
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Mr Abe now has a chance to achieve a long-cherished goal: changing the pacifist language of Japan's constitution.
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The M5S says it is environmentalist and pacifist, and will fight corruption as well as opposing EU-driven austerity.
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It is true that he is not a pacifist, but not for the high-minded reasons that he gives.
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Otto Dix fought through four years of the Great War and, like so many, came away a confirmed pacifist.
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Even pacifist Japan is converting two destroyers to carry jets, for the first time since the second world war.
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As my pacifist professor in college, Colman McCarthy, would ask: Where are the criminals of 20 years from now?
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Even the biggest pacifist, if you will, could find a reason to pick up a gun and kill somebody.
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Last Sunday, he won a commanding majority in parliamentary elections, fueling his hopes of revising the nation's pacifist Constitution.
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One of the characteristics ascribed to "Buddhists," according to this rubric, was that they are generally tolerant and pacifist.
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Georgi's father, Soslan, had helped found a pacifist religious sect in North Ossetia, a Russian province that borders Georgia.
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Yet his dream of excising the pacifist parts of the constitution will almost certainly founder for lack of support.
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Rustin traveled to India in 1948 to learn more about pacifist ideas and helped introduce those teachings to King.
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"The 'Made in Germany' death business is booming," the head of the pacifist opposition Left party, Katja Kipping, said.
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Sattar had been imprisoned and tortured for being a pacifist who refused to fight in the Iran-Iraq war.
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Labour has always been divided between a moderate, internationalist, social democratic Left, and a radical, pacifist anti-imperialist Left.
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She read and admired pacifist writers like Peter Kropotkin and Paul Goodman, comparing them to her beloved Lao Tzu.
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Gouges was a prolific defender of free speech, women's rights and political dialogue, as well as an abolitionist and pacifist.
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If his party gets a majority in both houses, he's pledged to go forward with changes to Japan's pacifist constitution.
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And Japanese spending is set to surge in the next five years, with new offensive weapons breaking old pacifist taboos.
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Komeito's base is largely pacifist, forcing politicians in that party to walk a fine line when discussing possible constitutional changes.
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Despite being a staunch pacifist, he served in both World Wars, and was injured at the Battle of the Somme.
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At the heart of the movie is the improbable friendship of the near-pacifist Dude and the violence-prone Walter.
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States. Since 2015, Russia has shown itself to be a more consequential actor in Syria than the pacifist EU. Russia
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" He listed them wryly: "I am a pacifist, I am an anarchist, I am a planetary citizen, and so on.
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The move, which critics allege violates the country's postwar pacifist constitution, comes amid Chinese naval expansion in the Pacific Ocean.
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Despite having a pacifist constitution, even at 192.33 percent, Japan already ranks as one of the world's biggest military spenders.
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The push for re-militarization For decades, Japan has debated revising its pacifist constitution which prevents it from initiating war.
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In 1991, Japan, constrained by its pacifist post-war constitution, sent cash but no troops for the first Gulf War.
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David McReynolds (1929–2018), antiwar pacifist, socialist, and politician Johnny Kline (1932–2018), Harlem Globetrotter and political advocate against racism.
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David E. McReynolds, a pacifist, socialist and sometime political candidate whose activism spanned many decades, died on Friday in Manhattan.
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Seeing the violence stirred something primal and unpleasant within him, pitting his pacifist nature against a strong desire for justice.
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South Koreans have been wary of giving Japan, its former colonial master, any reason to rearm its postwar pacifist military.
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While Sanders has said he is not currently a pacifist, he did seek conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War.
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Mr. Abe has professed his desire to fulfill his grandfather's thwarted effort to revise the pacifist clause in Japan's Constitution.
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Critics said troop deployment in the dangerous environment violated conditions set for such activities in line with Japan's pacifist constitution.
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"Hacksaw Ridge" is about a pacifist soldier in World War II, which is sort of like a vegan at a barbecue.
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The Hiroshima House gets its name and inspiration from Floyd Schmoe, a Quaker pacifist who was a conscientious objector during WWII.
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The risk is he uses this fresh mandate to revise the country's pacifist constitution first, and take his time with reforms.
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Abe has long sought to revise the constitution's pacifist Article 9 to further legitimize the military, but public opinion is divided.
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Japan in recent years, particularly under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has been stretching the limits of its post-war, pacifist constitution.
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He has expressed caution about Abe's pet project to revise the pacifist Article 9 of the post-war, U.S.-drafted constitution.
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The channel GoldVision has been streaming video games in a steadfastly pacifist mode, even in violent titles like Grand Theft Auto.
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A "pacifist" Japan continues to depend on the U.S. for its security in the face of Chinese military expansion and threats.
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He has lifted restrictions on arms exports and reinterpreted the pacifist Constitution to allow Japanese forces to undertake combat missions overseas.
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He has also stretched the limits of its pacifist postwar constitution to allow the military to take a bigger global role.
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His most cherished long-term goal — to try to change the pacifist clause in the country's Constitution — is now probably compromised.
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In "Death of Dreams" (1936), the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky is pictured imprisoned, shortly after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Khan declared himself a pacifist during his speech from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, saying he believed in dialogue.
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Because of Buddhism's pacifist image — swirls of calming incense and beatific smiles — the faith is not often associated with sectarian aggression.
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It is pacifist and environmentalist, yet protectionist; socially liberal, yet wary of immigration; keen on Putin's Russia, but only intermittently Eurosceptic.
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The World War II drama is based on a documentary about Desmond Doss (Garfield), a pacifist embroiled in the Battle of Okinawa.
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ELASTIC PACIFISM In 1991, Japan, constrained by its pacifist post-war constitution, sent cash but no troops for the first Gulf War.
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I'm not a pacifist and I accept the utility of violence, but antifa isn't merely squaring off against self-identified neo-Nazis.
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Mr Abe has taken his win as a mandate to press ahead with his long-standing plan to revise Japan's pacifist constitution.
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In fact, I think I'm actually a pacifist at heart, and I still sympathize with those who are abused, injured, or victimized.
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"They also fear that revising the pacifist constitution will send a wrong signal to Asian neighbors" who suffered from Japan's wartime aggression.
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For the left, it is a reminder of the awfulness of war and the importance of the pacifist provisions in the constitution.
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When, in consequence, he was stripped of his title he was immediately in demand as a pacifist speaker on the campus circuit.
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He had been a pacifist before the war, but after the invasion of Norway he fled to Britain and volunteered to fight.
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Alicia Vikander is Vera Brittain, the British pacifist, in James Kent's coming-of-age story based on her World War I memoir.
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She was a pacifist, a foe of the gigantic Anaconda Copper Company and, above all, an advocate of equal rights for women.
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But we have a pacifist community within our own society that's organized around religious resistance to advanced technology — the Old Order Amish.
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A majority of the Japanese public generally opposes amending the pacifist Constitution; protesters mounted large demonstrations against the security bills last year.
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The new government is expected to try to ease the pacifist restrictions enshrined in Japan's constitution and bulk up the country's military.
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Around the time his parents divorced, he proclaimed himself a "progressive pacifist" and conscientious objector and moved to a liberal Christian commune.
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As a pacifist, atheist and campaigner for democratic values, Maikel should easily pass all security screens for admission into the United States.
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Heng Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan last week proposed revising the country's pacifist Constitution that has been in place since 1947.
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And Tokyo has long taken the position that nuclear arms would not violate its pacifist constitution, although it rules out possessing them.
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Published in 1936 with the Spanish Civil War on the horizon, the book, interpreted as pacifist propaganda, found enemies on both sides.
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Burbank has been playing games this way ever since Geometry Wars (which does offer a pacifist achievement) popped the idea in his head.
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Koike also agrees with Abe that Japan's post-war, U.S.-drafted, pacifist constitution should be amended, though not necessarily on the changes needed.
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In 1947, the postwar government passed the Fundamental Law on Education to bolster the liberal and democratic values of the postwar pacifist constitution.
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True, the EU has begun a conversation on defence co-operation, and Mr Abe wants to remove the pacifist clause from Japan's constitution.
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The Supreme Court ruling overturned the conviction of a conscientious objector who was a Jehovah's Witness—a member of a pacifist religious group.
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Abe has tightened ties with Washington during his four years in office, stretching the limits of Japan's pacifist constitution and boosting defense spending.
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Inada, a close ally of Abe and a supporter of revamping Japan's pacifist constitution, had made regular visits to Yasukuni in the past.
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He will seek to change Japan's pacifist constitution to acknowledge the existence of the Japanese army, which will upset China and South Korea.
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It mostly involved nonlethal shooting and waiting around, which gave Morgan enough time to intervene and display impressive pistol skills for a pacifist.
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Future historians may conclude that Mr. Obama's visit to Hiroshima provided a spectacle to help remilitarize the world's wealthiest, most populous pacifist country.
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Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence movement and a prominent pacifist, never won despite being nominated five times from 1937 to 1948.
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Being pacifist comedy geeks, Murnion and Milott boned up on combat tactics by studying "Generation Kill," a miniseries about the 2003 Iraq invasion.
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PARR: Yes, I&aposm normally a pacifist, but when it comes to intergalactic warfare, I&aposve got to say, let&aposs do it.
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Alicia Vikander channels Vera Brittain, the protofeminist British pacifist, in James Kent's coming-of-age story based on her World War I memoir.
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The move risks inflaming a politically delicate debate in Japan over whether such expanded military capability is compatible with the country's pacifist constitution.
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On the security front, Abe wants to revise the post-war constitution's pacifist Article 9 to clarify the ambiguous status of Japan's military.
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Mr. McReynolds spent almost four decades as a staff member for the War Resisters League, a pacifist organization based in New York City.
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The same group showed that more violent and warlike traditional societies have a much higher incidence of left-handers than more pacifist societies.
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Berrigan credited Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker newspaper, with introducing him to the pacifist movement and influencing his thinking about war.
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A group of very young Camp Fire Girls "carried a stretcher, on which lay a dummy representing a dead pacifist," The Times reported.
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Although this applies more to its clergy than its faithful, the Anglican church of 2018 is decidedly liberal, cosmopolitan and pacifist in its ethos.
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"Our people are being sanctioned because of their pacifist nature as well as their tolerance and respect for different religions and beliefs," it added.
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His hope was that sending jets into Pakistan would dispel old notions of a pacifist India and collect a few votes in the process.
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They seem to be the pacifist philosophers of the sea, but they exist solely so they can be conquered in a 60-second scene.
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And even if the TV show is less pacifist than the books, it can't avoid just how pointless so much of the conflict is.
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Assuming he is dead, his wife Penelope puts herself through college and takes a couple of suitors, including a pacifist named Dr. Norbert Woodley.
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This largely meshed with Japan&aposs postwar self-image as a pacifist country with an air force geared exclusively toward defending the home islands.
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Abe's government is pushing several unpopular policies including revising Japan's pacifist constitution, and doubts also run deep about his efforts to revive the economy.
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They have a daughter, Kestra — who loves language and is a pacifist, and they had a son, Thad, who died of a mandaxic neurosclerosis.
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Abe took power promising sweeping economic upgrades, steps to make Japan more welcoming to foreign talent and revisions to the nation's pacifist postwar constitution.
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Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" is a powerful indictment of battle by an English composer who remained an avowed pacifist throughout the Second World War.
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The sense of grievance from followers of a generally pacifist religion might seem unlikely: In both countries, Buddhists constitute overwhelming majorities of the population.
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The sense of grievance from followers of a generally pacifist religion might seem unlikely: In both countries, Buddhists constitute overwhelming majorities of the population.
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A pacifist, he declared himself a conscientious objector and was consigned for about a year to the psychiatric ward of a Boston naval hospital.
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The result gives the ruling coalition the two-thirds majority required to push through Abe's long-held goal of rewriting the country's pacifist constitution.
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A member of the Naval Reserve and an Army veteran who served in Japan during the Korean War, Mr. Polner evolved into a pacifist.
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The pacifist in me doesn't really want to condone shit like that, but then the revolutionist in me is like, by any means necessary.
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" The statement added that Venezuelans "were being sanctioned because of their pacifist nature as well as their tolerance and respect for different religions and beliefs.
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To visit this powerful memorial is to understand the devastating experience that gave birth to a pacifist tradition in Japan that continues to this day.
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But a majority of voters see no need to revise the constitution and the LDP's dovish partner is reluctant to change its pacifist Article 9.
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Members do not vote, are staunchly pacifist, and enjoy little support among a population that bristles at their door-to-door proselytising and unfamiliar theology.
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That could mean backing away from the long-held goal of revising Japan's pacifist constitution to focus on pocketbook issues that require less political capital.
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And even though conscientious objection is no longer illegal, it will still be up to the courts to assess the sincerity of any professed pacifist.
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In Japan, where debates around possible revisions to the country's pacifist constitution are ongoing, the official response to Trump's comments has so far been muted.
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Like many of the ISIS wives being held in the jail, May describes Bilal as a good man, a pacifist who didn't want to fight.
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Experts say Japanese firms are wary of pacifist sentiments at home and unsure how to win business after decades of isolation from foreign military markets.
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Abe hopes to gain enough seats to boost his chances to revise Japan's pacifist constitution — his long-cherished goal before his term ends in 2021.
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Critics worry he might switch his attention to trying to revise Japan's post-war pacifist constitution, as Abenomics seems to be running out of steam.
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Ru suggesting that Russia should create its own athletic event based on "martial prowess" rather than the "Utopian, quasi-pacifist guidelines" of the Olympic movement.
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A staunch pacifist, she always invites the authorities to participate in her activities, but she is nervous as more young people are sent to prison.
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By the time he attended the University of California, Los Angeles, in the early 1950s, he had become an active socialist and an ardent pacifist.
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I was soon joined by another pacifist, and we found a small bungalow across the street from the Catholic high school, where we taught English.
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He himself said he failed to achieve a dream of revising the country's pacifist, post-war constitution to clarify the ambiguous status of the military.
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The speaker hailing him was not a far-left or pro-Palestinian activist, but Justin Raimondo, the outspoken pacifist and longtime editorial director of Antiwar.
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"Ferdinand" A story about an animated pacifist bull voiced by a man (John Cena) who built a career by roughing people up in a ring.
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Abzug was a native New Yorker — her father, a World War I pacifist, ran a business he named the Live and Let Live Meat Market.
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Defense spending, and the military in general, remain controversial in Japan, where many still support the country's pacifist constitution imposed by the United States after WW524.
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Her party is open to debate on a possible revision of the constitution's pacifist chapter 9, whose literal interpretation would ban the maintenance of armed forces.
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When Labour was in Downing Street, the Lib Dems found a role as a pacifist, civil libertarian and slightly more left-wing alternative to the government.
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In part its construction reflects the hawkishness of the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who has challenged the post-war pacifist traditions that so provoke Mr Trump.
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In effect, Japan transformed itself from one of the most aggressively militaristic nations in the world into a pacifist country with no ability to wage war.
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During his news conference, Abe also called for debate on revising Japan's post-war, pacifist constitution, saying Sunday's election result showed it was what voters wanted.
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The changes sparked protests in Japan and were seen by some as a departure from the pacifist spirit of the country's post-World War II constitution.
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" Japan, however, has forsworn nuclear weapons and since a little after the end of World War II has been governed under a so-called "pacifist constitution.
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C.S. Lewis once pointed out that evil seduces us into exaggerating our faults, telling the pacifist he's too militaristic and the militarist that he's too pacifistic.
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But recent years have seen the rise of a nationalist lobby called Nippon Kaigi, which seeks to rewrite Japan's pacifist constitution and make education more patriotic.
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Mr Abe's ultimate goal—winning a coalition to give him two-thirds of the seats, enough to let him rewrite Japan's pacifist constitution—may prove elusive.
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The pacifist movement that has long been centered in Hiroshima is struggling to remain relevant to younger people, many born several generations after the war's end.
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Abe wants to accelerate plans to amend Japan's pacifist constitution and he expects to submit a proposed revision to lawmakers before the end of the year.
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Albert Einstein was famously a pacifist, but he signed a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 urging him to develop the atomic bomb.
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When it all coalesces into a gleeful juggernaut every four years during the Olympics, it offers fans a pacifist, dunk-driven version of imperialism to enjoy.
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Ishiba has criticized Abe on several fronts including his proposal to revise the post-war constitution's pacifist Article 9 by clarifying the status of the military.
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The episode's plot is a distant relative of the original series episode, "Errand of Mercy," where Kirk and Spock encounter the evolved and pacifist Organians: 3.
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That could weaken the momentum Mr. Abe has built as the North Korean crisis has unfolded, and shake his bid to revise the Constitution's pacifist clause.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan won a majority for his party in parliamentary elections earlier this month, fueling his hopes to change Japan's pacifist constitution.
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Amending the pacifist clause has long been one of his most cherished goals, as his grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, tried and failed to do.
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A poll published this week by Kyodo News showed that respondents were nearly equally split on the question of whether the pacifist clause should be revised.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made loosening the limits of the U.S.-drafted constitution a key goal but revising the charter's pacifist Article Nine remains contentious.
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As much as Abe's government wishes to remain under the American military umbrella, the American postwar order, including the pacifist constitution, still inflames right-wing resentment.
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Amending the constitution's pacifist Article 9 to clarify the status of Japan's military is a long-held goal of Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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A poll published on Monday by Kyodo News showed that respondents were nearly equally split on the question of whether that pacifist clause should be revised.
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Even perennially pacifist Japan didn't participate in negotiations, a telling sign the country is keeping its nuclear options open in the age of Kim Jong-un.
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Abe, a conservative who has pledged to revise Japan's pacifist postwar constitution, said Monday he "100 percent agreed" with Trump's tough stance toward the rogue regime.
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The site being excavated was to conform to his dreams of a pacifist, matriarchal, free-spirited civilization, nothing like the Europe outside tumbling into world war.
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But Barlach's pacifist-themed public sculptures of the late 1920s — like those of his better-known friend Käthe Kollwitz — were deemed unacceptable and removed from view.
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Hacksaw Ridge tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a pacifist and conscientious objector who enlisted in WWII as a medic and refused to carry a rifle.
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The PM wants to revise the nation's post-war pacifist constitution to enable military action under the doctrine of collective self-defense amid China's growing military clout.
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Although he initially supported the war, Hablik became a pacifist in its aftermath; he became obsessed with the idea that art could marshal humanity toward universal peace.
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Any change to the Imperial Household Law would require approval by Japan's parliament, which at the moment is focused on controversial revisions to the country's pacifist constitution.
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I can't imagine a scenario, outside the rarest of exceptions, when someone can climb the ranks through sheer pacifist play and cheap strategies like full-match camping.
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Though often bracketed as populist, and sharing a similarly dim view of the EU, the pacifist, environmentalist M5S and the hard right League differ on many issues.
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Constitution conundrum Abe has set a deadline of 2020 to revise Japan's pacifist post-WWII constitution, which contains language that bans the country from maintaining armed forces.
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What Abe can accomplish in another term is unclear, including whether he can achieve his long-held but controversial goal of revising the pacifist post-war constitution.
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This is especially relevant since Abe is considered a hard-liner on issues of national security, and for years has been trying to revise Japan's pacifist constitution.
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Since the 1870s, when pacifist Julia Ward Howe campaigned for a holiday called Mother's Peace Day, there had been several calls for a holiday that commemorates mothers.
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"A few years ago, I would still have called Germany a pacifist country," said Karl-Heinz Kamp, president of the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin.
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The killing was particularly shocking because the victim, Asad Shah, was a member of the pacifist Ahmadiya sect, and his assailant was a Sunni Muslim from Bradford.
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The 1935 award given to Carl von Ossietzky, a German journalist and pacifist imprisoned for exposing Germany's clandestine rearmament, was widely viewed as a condemnation of Nazism.
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"With Japan's pacifist constitution at serious stake and Abe's power expanding, it is alarming both for Japan's Asian neighbors, as well as for Japan itself," Xinhua said.
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Ironically, the pact so bitterly denounced as an example of pacifist wishful thinking became a legal method for prosecuting those found guilty of committing crimes against humanity.
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And in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's victory in parliamentary elections raised the possibility that he would move swiftly to try to change the country's pacifist Constitution.
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He faced major protests in 2015 after proposing new security bills to legalize collective self-defense, which were seen as seriously undermining Japan's so-called pacifist Constitution.
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With all its erratic punctuation and grammatical incoherence, its non sequiturs and obscure historical references, it appears to have been written by a pacifist polymath gone amok.
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Mr. Sahashi said it would be much more difficult for Mr. Abe to push through some of his most cherished agendas, including revising the country's pacifist Constitution.
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A Kyodo news agency survey in April showed 47% of Japanese saw no need to weaken the constitution's pacifist Article 9, while 45% said changes were necessary.
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Under the czars, the great-grandfather, though he fought in a rebellion in his youth, had taught a pacifist, Sufi Islamic philosophy of acquiescence to government authority.
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After serving as a secretary to the Dutch-born American pacifist A. J. Muste, he left for London to become an editor of Peace News, a weekly.
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This ideal appealed deeply to Harrison, a pacifist with an embracing view of diverse cultures and a pioneer in the gay rights movement, who died in 19463.
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Ms. Koike has previously supported the revision of Japan's pacifist Constitution and a stronger role for the country's military, both signature issues for Mr. Abe as well.
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Newsbook As is often the case with those who die young, Martin Luther King Jr. has become more symbol than man: pacifist, beacon of nonviolent racial reform.
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Japan's growing militarization is controversial because it runs counter to a pacifist clause in the country's postwar constitution, which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to revise.
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It evokes the medical photographs of soldiers with horrific facial wounds, dubbed "men without faces," that gained notoriety in Ernst Friedrich's pacifist 19443 publication War Against War!
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In 2015, amid protests from citizens and neighboring countries, the government adjusted its pacifist post-World War II constitution to allow a more active role in overseas conflicts.
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In particular, officials were rattled by Trump's suggestions that Japan, which until last year had a pacifist constitution, should obtain nuclear weapons to protect itself from North Korea.
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The book news comes less than one month after the release of Cena latest film Ferdinand, in which Cena voices a pacifist bull struggling to escape to freedom.
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"In a democracy, people can express themselves as long as it's done in a pacifist way," Chile President Michelle Bachelet said in a radio interview on Friday morning.
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The pacifist constitution has helped make its military as formidable as it is because to this point it has only had to concentrate on defensive operations, they say.
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But in Venice the 60-year-old is set to premiere "Hacksaw Ridge", a gripping war epic about a pacifist during World War II that cannot but move.
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Voters seemed more interested in staying the course and giving Mr. Abe's economic policies more time to yield results than in the debate over rewriting Japan's pacifist policies.
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Last ones imprisoned While some conscientious objectors avoid military service on pacifist or other moral grounds, the majority of those jailed in recent decades have been Jehova's Witnesses.
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Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit poet and pacifist, was an adviser to that picture and celebrated Mass with the actors — Neeson, De Niro, Jeremy Irons — on location in Colombia.
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We have the best military in the world and at points it may be that I'm not a pacifist and it may be necessary to use that military.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's call for changes to the decades-old U.S.-Japan security treaty could complicate Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to revise Japan's pacifist constitution.
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" Indeed, from the moment it was inserted into the Constitution, the pacifist clause has been fluid, with the historian John W. Dower calling it "a miasma of ambiguity.
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There a problem arises, for Doss refuses to hold a rifle: a stance that not even Gary Cooper, as the devout pacifist of "Sergeant York" (1941), could match.
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Last year, Abe spent considerable political capital enacting controversial legislation that allows Japan's military to defend friendly countries under attack, a major reinterpretation of the country's pacifist constitution.
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This is a unique speedrun and aims for the True Pacifist ending, which requires the runner to refrain from killing (almost) all enemies instead befriending or helping them.
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Any attempt to revise the constitution will still be politically fraught and LDP heavyweights have suggested that amending the pacifist Article 9 would not be the first priority.
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A firm pacifist, Rankin was the only one of 50 to vote against declaring war on Germany in 1917 -- and obviously she was the only woman to do so.
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After Japan's defeat in World War II, the country's new constitution declared that the country would be officially pacifist, meaning its military would be limited to self-defense only.
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Should Mr Abe follow through on his desire to change the constitution to remove the pacifist language still hemming in the SDF, he would doubtless provoke even greater ire.
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Carl von Ossietzky, a pacifist who died in 1938 in Nazi Germany's Berlin, was the last Nobel Peace Prize winner to live out his dying days under state surveillance.
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This new muscular Chinese policy has caused alarm in many countries, and Japan has, for its part, responded by boosting military spending and mulling changes to its pacifist constitution.
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Under the post-World War II pacifist constitution imposed by the United States, Japan could not use military force except under a narrow, and contested, definition of self-defense.
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Had Abe's coalition won two-thirds of the upper house, his administration might have turned to pushing through a controversial constitutional amendment releasing the Japanese army from pacifist constraints.
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"In a statement to the Guardian newspaper in 2013, Manning said that she did not consider herself a "pacifist" or "anti-war," but that she was a "transparency advocate.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday it is too early to discuss specific revisions to Japan's pacifist constitution as more debate is needed among various parties.
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In recent years, Japan has reinterpreted its pacifist constitution -- which Abe expressed a desire to rewrite completely -- to allow it to come to the aid of the US militarily.
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IN THE West, regard for the founding fathers of independent India is usually confined to Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the pacifist in a dhoti and the suave Cantabrigian.
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After the country's defeat in World War II, Germans felt ashamed of their role in the bloodshed and in the genocide of the Holocaust, and adopted a pacifist stance.
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At Fort Jackson, his fellow soldiers propose that any pacifist who volunteers to join the army must be insane, but Doss explains that he is a Seventh Day Adventist.
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Abe, a conservative hawk, has long been a supporter of Trump's more aggressive North Korea policy, which has coincided with his attempts to rewrite Japan's post-war pacifist constitution.
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A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike unveiled its election platform on Friday, pledging to prevent a planned sales tax hike and debate revising Japan's pacifist constitution.
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Japan's export curbs came just ahead of a July 21 upper-house election that Abe needs to win big to keep alive his hopes of revising the pacifist constitution.
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A pacifist environmentalist and expert on Icelandic crime thrillers emerged on Thursday as Iceland's new prime minister, its fourth in two years, after three parties signed a coalition agreement.
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She was a student at Fordham, part of the first cohort of women allowed to matriculate there, and has vivid memories of the one pacifist in the entire school.
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Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan has stepped up its own show of military force, and Mr. Abe has sought to revise the pacifist clause in the country's Constitution.
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The threat from North Korea has bolstered Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan's desire to strengthen Japan's military, which has long been limited by the country's pacifist Constitution.
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And Japanese citizens, some of whom received a beeping alert on their cellphones just four minutes after the projectile was launched, may be rethinking support for their pacifist Constitution.
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He regarded himself as a Libertarian, but he identified with the left-leaning wing of the Party, not the militant one—being a soldier had made him a pacifist.
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A police barricade surrounded the President, yielding a tableau of antiwar demonstrators being kept away from the tomb of a pacifist, in deference to a man overseeing a war.
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Within its D.C. headquarters, built deep beneath the Reflecting Pool, Walter alienates the other members of his tech team by working on contraptions that could only be called … pacifist.
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In 2014, the chairwoman of the Protestant church in Germany, Margot Kässmann, refused to exempt even the Allied invasion of 1944 that liberated Nazi Germany from the pacifist dogma.
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In 2014, the chairwoman of the Protestant church in Germany, Margot Kässmann, refused to exempt even the Allied invasion of 1944 that liberated Nazi Germany from the pacifist dogma.
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But that early reckoning got bogged down in politics: The United States, together with Japanese liberals, decided the problem was Japanese militarism and gave the country a pacifist Constitution.
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"The entire advertising efforts of the Bundeswehr are more adventurous than a realistic description of the job," Tobias Pflueger, defense policy spokesman for the pacifist Left Party en.die-linke.de/welcome.
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Mr Abe appears to have all but abandoned his ambition of revising the constitution to make explicit that Japan has armed forces, let alone revoke the pacifist Article 9 altogether.
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Although operating under a pacifist constitution, Japan provided $2628 billion in assistance during the Gulf war and their self defense forces provided considerable support to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Sources have said that pledges to spend on education and child care, stay tough on North Korea and revise the pacifist constitution are likely to be pillars of Abe's campaign.
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That would expand Mr Abe's authority within his party, and give him more freedom to ignore the views of Komeito, the LDP's pacifist, social-welfare-minded Buddhist-backed coalition partner.
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In the withering of the pacifist movement and the country's general support for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, he saw proof that it was folly to expect lasting results.
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Nagasaki's archdiocese, along with 15 others in Japan, also opposes efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to overhaul the country's pacifist Constitution, imposed by the United States after the war.
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The War Resisters League bought the property for $60,000, and the institute, which is named after Abraham Johannes Muste, a pacifist who opposed the Vietnam War and advised the Rev.
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She is a political hawk, supporting the revision of the country's pacifist Constitution as well as a stronger role for the country's self-defense forces, as Japan's military is known.
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A pacifist opposed to Vladimir Putin, Alexievich was the perfect Nobel laureate for a new Cold War, as tensions between Russia and the West reached the highest levels in decades.
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Abe's ruling bloc was headed for a big win in the election, exit polls showed, potentially reenergizing a push towards his cherished goal of revising the post-war, pacifist constitution.
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I say this to you quite seriously as somebody who personally happens not to be a pacifist but has the utter respect for anyone for grounds of conscience who is.
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In "The Poets in the Kitchen Window," a boy in Tel Aviv, whose mentally ill mother has been hospitalized, watches his sister dabble in pacifist Hinduism during Iraqi missile attacks.
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Three weeks later, the March 1 declaration also condemned a wide range of Japanese abuses, but it omitted references to bitterness, democracy or even the league, instead emphasizing pacifist resistance.
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In a vote held on July 10, 2016, Japanese voters ushered in the two-thirds majority needed for prime minister Shinzo Abe to revise that country's pacifist, war-renouncing constitution.
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Mr. Abe has long had the goal of bolstering Japan's military and ultimately wants to amend the country's pacifist Constitution, which was put in place by American occupiers in 1947.
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As the pacifist, Paul would appear to be in the ethical right (it's not for nothing that he's nicknamed "Jesus"), but the episode's writers set out to prove him wrong.
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Of course, Japan, whose military has long been constrained by its pacifist Constitution, has no intention of weakening its ties with the United States, particularly when it comes to security.
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Japan's military revival Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has long sought to change his country's pacifist constitution, adopted after the Second World War, to allow Japan to maintain armed forces.
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Though he hates war, the elder Doss is hardly a pacifist, and his violent behavior toward his sons and their mother (Rachel Griffiths) helps push Desmond toward peace-loving piety.
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After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, which made the pacifist cause more urgent and more dangerous, Eastman joined the group that would become the American Union Against Militarism.
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The last Nobel Peace Prize winner to live out his dying days under state surveillance was Carl von Ossietzky, a pacifist who died in Berlin in Nazi Germany in 1938.
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Later came "Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J. Muste" (1963), a biography of the pacifist, and "The New Equality" (19593), on the role of white guilt in racial reforms.
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It was one of two North Korean missiles to launch over Japan that year, leaving the country greatly alarmed and bolstering Abe's calls to scrap Japan's post-WWII pacifist constitution.
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He has repeatedly tried to move Japan away from its postwar pacifist stance, including (among other things) revising the government's view of its constitution to weaken its commitment to pacifism.
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While Party of Hope's economic policies differ from those of Abe's conservative LDP, but many of its security and diplomatic policies echo LDP's agenda, including revision to Japan's pacifist constitution.
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The coalition and friendly parties also won the two-thirds "super majority" that could allow them to begin the process of revising Japan's postwar, pacifist constitution, some TV exit polls showed.
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With the LDP on the defensive, Mr Abe's divisive plan to amend Japan's pacifist constitution to clarify the status of its armed forces is doomed, says Gerry Curtis of Columbia University.
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The Nobel speech was a fascinating argument from someone who is not a pacifist—it's in a way one of the best defenses of just war that a politician has given.
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His tough-on-crime rhetoric on the trail, and his bloody tenure as chief of Guatemala's prison system, suggest that he might not have fully absorbed his Indian hero's pacifist inclinations.
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Mr Abe wants to end questions about the legality and appropriate use of Japan's not-quite army, the Self-Defence Forces (SDF), by amending Article 9, the constitution's iconic pacifist clause.
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He readily admits that he is more interested in amending the pacifist constitution than in mending the economy, and that structural reform is simply a means to restore Japan to greatness.
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That would mark a radical break with Japan's pacifist constitution, which bans acts of belligerence—and even the maintenance of land, sea or air forces (notwithstanding the existence of the SDF).
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Together with like-minded allies, Abe's coalition could also keep the two-thirds majority needed to achieve his goal of revising the pacifist, post-war constitution to further legitimize the military.
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An election victory would also provide Abe with what may be his best, and possibly last, chance to secure the majority needed to begin the process of revising Japan's pacifist constitution.
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Prince Mikasa, an Imperial Army veteran who turned pacifist and the independent-minded younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who reigned during World War II, died in Tokyo on Thursday.
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It's named after a famous German pacifist who exposed the country's illegal rearmament and faced charges of high treason — so he and Snowden would have had a lot to talk about.
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TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan announced on Wednesday a plan to revise a pacifist Constitution that has been in place since it was enacted by American occupiers in 1947.
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Emperor Akihito pledged during the previous ceremony in 1990 to observe Japan's pacifist constitution and fulfill his duty as a symbol of the state and of the unity of the people.
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The pacifist denomination has more than 170,000 members in the country and has been targeted in a growing government campaign to banish religious groups that compete with the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Japan's pacifist constitution limits its offensive firepower, but the 816-foot Izumo is one of Japan's few tools that allow it to project military power beyond the defense of its own territories.
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The pacifist installation was condemned by Vladimir Kharchenko, a professor at the academy who considered it inappropriate for the sensitive topic of the war to be displayed in such an ironic way.
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Nippon Kaigi, a revisionist group dedicated to rewriting the pacifist constitution and restoring the emperor to a more central role, has 38,000 fee-paying members, including three-quarters of Mr Abe's cabinet.
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In Britain, the pacifist Socialist Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015 in an election opened up to "registered supporters" who could join the vote for three pounds.
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A revived economy (with more opportunities for women at work), a vigorous diplomacy and, notwithstanding the constraints of a pacifist post-war constitution, a stronger defence are to him the right responses.
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Abe has boosted Japan's overall defense spending since taking office in 2012 while stretching the limits of its pacifist post-war constitution to allow the military to take a bigger global role.
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Abe has made clear he wants to revise the U.S.-drafted, pacifist constitution, but formal amendment requires approval by two-thirds of both houses of parliament and a majority in a referendum.
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Abe has boosted Japan's overall defense spending since taking office in 2012, while stretching the limits of its pacifist post-war constitution to allow the military to take a bigger global role.
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So maybe Academy voters should venture outside their Hollywood liberal comfort zone and acknowledge Trump's America by giving the gong to the religious-pacifist bloodbath, Hacksaw Ridge, a true conservative cockle-warmer.
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"I'm a complete pacifist, I don't even like to fish," he said, before stepping out to check on the well-being of a living longhorn named Stretch kept in a large pen.
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Abe has sought to revive the pacifist nature of Japan's Constitution, a highly controversial move due to the sensitivities surrounding the country's role in World War II and the occupation of Korea.
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But for now, as a parent, one of the more impactful writings of the great Russian author, thinker and pacifist is a 132-year-old short story of less than 1,600 words.
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Abe leveraged domestic North Korea fears after two missiles flew over Japan to win a landslide supermajority for his ruling party, despite embarrassing scandals and controversial plans to revise Japan's pacifist constitution.
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He said he believed it was necessary to revise the constitution's pacifist article 9 to clarify the military's status but said the wording of a proposed change was up to his party.
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She said she wanted to debate the revision of the Constitution, but she questioned the wisdom of focusing exclusively on the pacifist clause that is at the center of Mr. Abe's ambitions.
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A straddle in the extreme, it aimed to join at one end the ecologist Greens — born out of an antinuclear pacifist protest movement — with the business-friendly Free Democrats at the other.
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News reports also suggest that the coalition didn't secure enough seats to fulfill Mr. Abe's long-cherished ambition of revising the country's pacifist Constitution — a goal that had put off some voters.
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This would mean, in an ideal world, that Japan should revise its pacifist constitution after a national debate, led not by a government of chauvinistic revanchists but by a more liberal administration.
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Looking for a way to serve the war effort while satisfying his pacifist leanings, he took leave in 290 to work as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force Bomber Command.
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Twelve years old when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ono created "event scores" like Grapefruit and performance pieces that were deeply inspired by both feminism and her pacifist ideology.
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He also ventured into film acting, founded a record label and music publishing company, and, as his political awareness grew, crafted "Simple Song of Freedom," a pacifist anthem for the Vietnam era.
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His character, Cheng Chao-an, is a pacifist due to a promise he made to his mother over a jade pendant; he is more William Munny than the Man with No Name.
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"I'm a pacifist, but if you're on that stage and you want to come at me in that way, it's unacceptable and should be met with the appropriate level of force," said Booker.
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He wasn't a pacifist, he wasn't an isolationist — that term wasn't even used at this time — but he was prudent about the decisions that he made, and I think that served him well.
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Indeed, Mr Abe has been trying to strengthen military ties with America by introducing legislation that gives Japan's armed forces—though still constrained by a pacifist constitution—more leeway to help allies globally.
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Over the course of the play, the characters offer different takes, often in the form of toasts to Merton — celebrating him as a pacifist, a Communist, a meditator, a bohemian and so on.
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, said he would try to amend his country's pacifist constitution by 2020 to clarify the status of the Self-Defence Forces, Japan's armed services in all but name.
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Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, has taken another step, setting out a plan to make explicit reference to the SDF in Article 9, Japan's iconic pacifist clause, and so end its unconstitutional status.
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Many Bernie Sanders supporters, more pacifist than he, look away at his support for gun manufacturer immunity, counter-terrorism drone warfare, and an expanded military role for Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.
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But some opposition parties are concerned that a strong election result for the ruling bloc may encourage Abe to press ahead with his long-held aspiration to revise the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution.
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"I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist," Puigdemont said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe surged back to power seven years ago, pledging to bolster Japan's defenses in response to a growing threat from China and aiming to amend the pacifist constitution.
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Shorter-term geopolitical issues, such as war with North Korea and Abe's post-election comments about wanting to revise the country's pacifist constitution, are also causing some people to stay on Japan's sidelines.
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The prime minister will press to change Japan's pacifist constitution, a huge step that will allow it to take part more easily in peacekeeping operations, but will also rattle China and South Korea.
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Japan's hawkish prime minister, has long advocated a revision to Japan's pacifist constitution, which currently states that Japan renounces war and will not maintain air, land or sea forces for non-defensive purposes.
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I don't know which is bleaker, that the Brotherhood Without Banners, once a merry band of Marxists, have been reduced to extortion, or that the Hound is seeking vengeance for a devout pacifist.
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He set about rebuilding the school, now called the Deni Arsanov School of Languages and Culture, and reviving his great-grandfather's legacy of teaching a pacifist strain of Sufi Islam and foreign languages.
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Peace and a Palestinian state will come when Palestinians aspire to create a Middle Eastern Costa Rica — pacifist, progressive, neighborly and democratic — rather than another Yemen: by turns autocratic, anarchic, fanatical and tragic.
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Alas, the humans and harpies and trolls and elves and mermaids and vicious red-eyed, virginity-obsessed unicorns populating the otherlands turn out to be perpetually at war, and Elliot is a pacifist.
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But after Japan's defeat and aggressive role in World War II, which left some 30 million dead in the Pacific, the country asserted its pacifist stance under Article 9 of the 1947 constitution.
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TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan won a commanding majority for his party in parliamentary elections on Sunday, reported NHK, the public broadcaster, fueling his hopes of revising the nation's pacifist Constitution.
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Tokyo (CNN)Japan is considering a further step away from its long-held pacifist stance with a proposal which would allow it, for the first time since World War II, to strike overseas targets.
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"I worried that the violent atmosphere would turn me into a violent person, someone who is happy to beat other people," says Lee Yong-suk, a conscientious objector who now runs a pacifist NGO.
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The official said he was glad the legislation passed three years ago, but that it's still extremely hard for Abe's administration to safeguard the country against all threats with such pacifist citizens and lawmakers.
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It could also affect his push to revise the pacifist Article 9 of the post-war, U.S.-drafted constitution, a politically divisive goal that Abe said in May he wanted to achieve by 2020.
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Ali refused to be drafted into the U.S. military on pacifist and political grounds during the Vietnam War, and his embrace of the Nation of Islam made him a pariah among America's white elite.
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Caught off guard Wednesday was the 28th anniversary of the death of the man the university is named after, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a 1920s Pashtun independence activist and pacifist also known as Bacha Khan.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc scored a big win in Sunday's election, bolstering his chance of becoming the nation's longest-serving premier and re-energizing his push to revise the pacifist constitution.
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Together with Komeito, his ally in the ruling coalition, and like-minded parties and independents, Mr Abe now has the two-thirds majority to push for changes to the pacifist constitution in a referendum.
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"It is clear that the motive behind the revision of the constitution has always been to undo the post-war pacifist constraints, and that is exactly what they are seeking to accomplish," he said.
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In order for Japan to take a wider regional role, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has stretched the limits of a post-war pacifist constitution by sending warships, planes and troops on overseas missions.
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The change that the LDP wants to make is to the pacifist clause of constitution, and it's fair to say that a majority of Japanese voters do not see the need to [do that].
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The exchange of trust between Cyndie and Tara is a crucial reminder that in the world of The Walking Dead, hope and trust in the pacifist side of the human spirit are vanishingly rare.
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He wants to liberate oppressed people by arming them, while on the other hand, T'Challa is a sort of pacifist monarch who refuses to come to the aid of others, despite his enormous riches.
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"In terms of actions like this, it's pretty basic: We are called to love our enemies," said Jim Dowling, 62, a member of the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement who was one of the protesters.
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Abe wants to revise the postwar pacifist constitution, and his more ardent supporters think that the best way to do so is to present Japan's past imperialism as a heroic effort to liberate Asia.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a ruling party leadership vote on Thursday, setting him on track to become Japan's longest-serving premier and try to cement his legacy, including by revising the pacifist constitution.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a ruling party leadership vote, setting him on track to become Japan's longest-serving premier and try to cement his legacy, including by revising the post-war pacifist constitution.
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Inada said she told Mattis that Japan would play a proactive security role, in line with legal changes enacted under Abe that eased the limits of its pacifist constitution on its military's operations overseas.
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It parodied the political landscape in Japan where neo-nationalists and neoliberals increasingly resemble one another through their agreement on controversial issues, including amending Japan's pacifist constitution and the imposition of further austerity measures.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to accelerate plans to amend Japan's pacifist constitution, saying he expects to submit a proposed revision to lawmakers before the end of the year, media reported on Sunday.
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Instead, they said, Germany should focus on building a strong European defence union and ultimately, a European army - a stance that may resonate with a deeply pacifist German public that remains sceptical of military engagements.
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I first became aware of Burbank's playstyle when he was streaming pacifist runs of Call of Duty games, which he began even before his family had been threatened in such an immediate and terrifying way.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who accompanied Trump on the visit to the Kaga, has boosted defense spending since taking office in December 2012, stretching the pacifist constitution to ease limits on troop activities abroad.
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Protest organizers planned on Tuesday to hold demonstrations that are intended to be clearly pacifist, including a read-in and a bike ride, in response to the police use of tear gas and rubber bullets.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The policy chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday called for changing the nation's pacifist constitution after the ruling coalition won a landslide victory in an election for parliament's upper house.
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As a founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, she declared herself a "pacifist even in the class struggle" although she professed to understand perfectly well why the poor wanted to rise up against their oppressors.
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Many companies in the survey expressed concern that a big election win would encourage Abe to invest his energy in a long-held ambition to revise Japan's pacifist constitution, at the expense of economic policy.
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There's a strong pacifist vein that runs through the public here, people on the streets of Tokyo telling CNN that they don't want war and there must be another way to deal with North Korea.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his ruling coalition's solid win in an upper house election on Sunday showed that voters supported debate over his proposal to revise the post-war, pacifist constitution.
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Instead, they said, Germany should focus on building a strong European defense union and, ultimately, a European army - a stance that may resonate with a deeply pacifist German public that remains skeptical of military engagements.
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Nonetheless, his admiring biopic of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a pacifist who won the Medal of Honour for his bravery as a medic in the second world war, is likely to carry away many prizes.
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A Christian pacifist, he's known within evangelical circles for his opposition to the death penalty, for his embrace of immigrants and refugees, and for helping found an intentional community in Philadelphia called the Simple Way.
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Other conservatives worry devoting political energy to discussing abdication could sidetrack Abe's push to revise the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution, which many conservatives see as a symbol of Japan's humiliating defeat in World War Two.
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I had to rethink what ... the experience of a child of the '60s would have been like in the '70s, when the hope he had for this peaceful, pacifist, free love thing had been dashed.
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Three laureates — Mr. Liu; Aung San Suu Kyi, now Myanmar's de facto leader; and the German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky — were in detention or under house arrest at the time they were recognized.
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The Viennese writer Stefan Zweig was a political pacifist during World War I and moved to neutral Switzerland, abandoning his own country, the Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary, which was fighting in alliance with Germany.
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" The Americans learned only that, "as a condition for return, he agreed that he would renounce his former association and embark on a message of denouncing terrorism and preaching a more tolerant and pacifist message.
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Some 200 protesters gathered near the entrance of the convention centre near Tokyo, calling for the government-backed exhibition to be shut down as they regarded it as an affront to the nation's pacifist constitution.
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He became a pacifist because of his father's experience in World War II: Mervyn Sr. was shot down during a bombing raid over Romania and was still designated missing in action when Skip was born.
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Witnesses' conscientious objection is based on a belief "that Christians should abstain from war because they have no right to take human life," informed by pacifist Bible passages and the example of early Christian communities.
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Aided by a local pacifist group and hounded by United States and Japanese military police, the fugitives sneaked aboard a Siberia-bound Russian freighter and were later taken to Moscow by hard-drinking K.G.B. agents.
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"I was very angry when I heard my son was being trained to kill people," says Mr Tomiyama—so angry, in fact, that he decided to sue the Japanese government for violating the country's pacifist constitution.
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She plunged into the Occupy movement, coming to identify as a pacifist-anarchist, but she eventually became disillusioned with that as well when the movement's "sparkle-fingers" utopianism, as she puts it, failed to generate results.
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Indeed, the principles that are so strongly rooted in this country are largely tied to the pacifist attitudes of the German public and a preference for an economic rather than a security role in foreign affairs.
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The LDP's thrashing, however, could make it harder for Abe to pursue his cherished goal of revising the U.S.-drafted constitution's pacifist Article 9 by 2020, a politically divisive agenda, said Sophia University professor Koichi Nakano.
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That is the lowest since Abe returned to power almost five years ago with a conservative agenda of reviving traditional values and loosening limits on the military that centered on amending the pacifist post-war constitution.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc scored a big win in Sunday's election, bolstering his chance of becoming the nation's longest-serving premier and re-energizing his push to revise the pacifist constitution.
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During the contentious 2013 debate on whether to amend Japan's pacifist constitution, which was written after World War II, Aso suggested that the country could learn from the way Nazi Germany revised the country's Weimar Constitution.
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It's hard to imagine another setting in which third-party harms are more implicated than when someone else must assume the life-and-death risk of military service in the place of a pacifist religious objector.
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Japan, which hosts 50,000 American troops and is protected by the US nuclear umbrella, has not signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, an inaction atomic bombing survivors and pacifist groups protest as insincere.
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He was the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to die in state custody since Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist and opponent of Nazism who won the prize in 1935 and died under guard in 1938.
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Earlier this year, Abe set a 2020 deadline for changing Japan's pacifist constitution, which was imposed on it by the US in the wake of World War II and bars the country from maintaining armed forces.
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The coup, in which almost no shots were fired, became known as the Carnation Revolution after a restaurant worker and pacifist, Celeste Caeiro, offered carnations to the soldiers as civilians took to the streets to celebrate.
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The legendary artist who put visuals to much of anarcho-pacifist punk trailblazers Crass' ideas and music, Gee Vaucher, got her first retrospective last month, gathering five decades of idealogically-resplendent artwork into one unified space.
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Attention will also focus on whether the ruling bloc and the smaller Japan Innovation Party together retain a two-thirds "super majority" needed to revise the post-war, pacifist constitution, a long-held goal for Abe.
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In its place Japan sought, and found, a new narrative: since 1945, goes the tale, the collective effort of its people has transformed the country into a developed nation with a powerful economy that is—crucially—pacifist.
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Inada, a close ally of Abe and a supporter of revamping Japan's pacifist constitution, has made regular visits to the Yasukuni shrine, which honors the nation's war dead, including war criminals executed after the World War Two.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory on Sunday in an election for parliament's upper house, media exit polls showed, despite concerns about his economic policies and a goal to revise the pacifist constitution.
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TOKYO, July 10 (Reuters) - The policy chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday called for changing the nation's pacifist constitution after the ruling coalition won a landslide victory in an election for parliament's upper house.
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The win puts him on course to be post-war Japan's longest-ever serving prime minister, and Abe is expected to use his new mandate to push for overhauls to the country's defense strategy and pacifist stance.
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TOKYO — Voters helped Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan move closer on Sunday to securing the lawmaker support he needs to revise a pacifist Constitution that has been in place since American occupiers created it in 1947.
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Still, it lets us into facets of Simone's life—like the fact that she once told Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that she was not a pacifist— that weren't part of her public narrative before the documentary.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition is set to win a solid majority in an upper house election later this week, keeping alive his dream to revise Japan's pacifist constitution, a survey showed on Monday.
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The emperor is meant to bridge, and yet often embodies, the contradiction between two national identities: a pacifist democracy that officially rejects the imperial past, and a lingering sense of identity that is tied to that past.
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Some 200 protesters gathered near the entrance of the convention centre near Tokyo, calling for the government-backed DSEI Japan exhibition to be shut down as they regarded it as an affront to the nation's pacifist constitution.
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For long-haired hippies who embraced all things "green," who saw "peace and love" not as utopian abstractions but as a way of life, the all-natural, anti-corporate, and transparently pacifist Dr. Bronner's was their soap.
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In keeping with the pacifist Constitution, Japan's military is meant to protect the country from direct attack, while its partner the United States handles offensive duties like striking enemy bases — a so-called shield and spear arrangement.
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Mr. Sanders had the opportunity right from the start to emphasize his pacifist credentials as the debate opened with questions about the heightened tensions with Iran and who was best positioned to serve as commander in chief.
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What you won't hear them say, not in so many words, is that they're the ones pandering to a pacifist, progressive base — because that's where the heart and soul of the new Democratic Party seems to be.
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The words propelled the debate in Japan about whether it makes sense, amid a growing threat from North Korea and an increasingly assertive China, to preserve the country's pacifist constitution and rely on the US for defense.
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"Refusing to join me in Cambridge tonight would be another sign of Theresa May's weakness, not strength," Mr. Corbyn, who has been trying to revamp his own image as a weak-kneed pacifist, said in a statement.
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Charles Cobb's excellent book, "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" describes how pacifist community organizers from the North learned to accept the armed protection of their black, rural communities.
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Some 200 protesters gathered near the entrance of the convention centre near Tokyo, calling for the government-backed DSEI Japan exhibition to be shut down as they regarded it as an affront to the nation's pacifist constitution.
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In 1937, after the prize was awarded to the imprisoned German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, a decision that infuriated Nazi Germany, the rules were changed to bar sitting members of the government from serving on the committee.
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Smith's installation finds a counterpart in another kind of endurance performance: when she read pacifist Gene Sharp's "198 Methods of Nonviolent Action" to an audience of Kansas City Art Institute students the week immediately following the election.
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Josh is a loner at heart; Angelica is much younger than her high school-aged contemporaries; and Wesley is a devout pacifist, meaning he doesn't fit in with rampant violence that has become characteristic of post-apocalyptic Glendale.
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If Japan's recently re-elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe, succeeds in his ambition to change the country's pacifist constitution, the Japanese navy is likely to increase its capabilities and more explicitly train to fight alongside its American counterpart.
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Even before the new system was adopted, for example, Abe named an ex-diplomat sympathetic to his drive to loosen the limits of the pacifist constitution on the military to a post in charge of interpreting that charter.
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The pacifist tradition of the American Friends reinforced his belief before Pearl Harbor that the United States must stay out of the war and his belief after that the postwar world must be arranged to prevent future conflicts.
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In order to gain cooperation from both sides, it is important for everyone to understand "the reality of the tragedy of nuclear attacks," he said, and reiterated Japan&aposs pledge to maintain it pacifist and non-nuclear principles.
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To join such action, Merkel and her conservatives would need to win over Maas's more pacifist Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in the ruling coalition, and overcome poll numbers that indicate 74 percent of Germans oppose such action.
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But the conservative leader's inability to cement his legacy by revising the charter's pacifist Article 9 symbolizes persistent public wariness about putting troops in harm's way far from home and a fear of entanglement in U.S.-led wars.
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In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is attempting to rewrite the country's pacifist constitution to enable it to strike overseas, while US President Donald Trump has proven to be keen on foreign interventions despite his isolationist campaign promises.
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Attention will also focus on whether the ruling bloc, along with the smaller Japan Innovation Party and independents, retain a two-thirds "super majority" needed to revise the post-war pacifist constitution, a long-held goal for Abe.
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Her reasons for being there are repeatedly challenged by friends, family and colleagues, who say she is too young, too female, too inexperienced, too academic, too pacifist or too emotionally tied to her job to do it properly.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a World War Two naval officer and one of Japan's longest-serving premiers, marked his 100th birthday on Sunday with a call to revise the nation's post-war, pacifist constitution.
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Like many young evangelicals of the 1960s and 1970s, Cromartie began as a pacifist and radical, a Christian of the left, who opposed the Vietnam War and sojourned with the left-wing evangelical activist and author Jim Wallis.
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In his later years, his gait slowing but his bearing ramrod straight, he appeared regularly on television and granted many newspaper interviews, commenting on political matters like his long-cherished goal of revising Japan's American-written pacifist Constitution.
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At least one fellow protester—now-attorney and anti-war activist Jesse Stellato—has suggested Buttigieg's objections to the war were calculated, not conscientious: "He seemed more like a partisan than a pacifist," Stellato told The Washington Post.
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Though a lifelong Quaker and pacifist — he made an exception for World War II, calling it just — Mr. Morris was closely associated with images of war, which he was instrumental in placing before the eyes of the world.
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The TV show was well known for its right-on values—in 1968 it showed one of the first interracial kisses on American network television—and its vision of the future is one of a largely pacifist utopia.
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Ties between the world's second and third-largest economies have also been clouded by a long-running territorial dispute over a cluster of East China Sea islets and suspicion in China about Abe's efforts to amend Japan's pacifist constitution.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday it would be difficult for the time being to revise the armament-renouncing article of Japan's pacifist constitution, an issue drawing attention as the July 10 upper house election approaches.
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Opinion polls show support for Abe has plunged to its lowest since he returned to office in December 2012 with a promise to revive Japan's stale economy and bolster its defenses, endangering his goal of revising the pacifist constitution.
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And his administration can claim credit for steady management of US alliances with key Asian allies South Korea and Japan, the latter of which recently made historic shifts to its pacifist post-war constitution for purposes of self-defense.
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TOKYO, July 15 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition is set to win a solid majority in an upper house election later this week, keeping alive his dream to revise Japan's pacifist constitution, a survey showed on Monday.
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"In my eyes as I have always been an advocate for fighting when assailed, though a Quaker — I therefore keep the old Tunisian saber within my reach," Dolley wrote to a cousin, who practiced Quakerism, a pacifist Christian denomination.
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Japan in 2015 enacted legislation that could let its troops fight overseas for the first time since its defeat in World War Two, a milestone in Abe's push to loosen the limits of the pacifist constitution on the military.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ruling coalition and pro-constitutional revision allies were certain to lose the two-thirds upper house majority needed to push ahead with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's proposal to revise the pacifist constitution, public broadcaster NHK said.
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If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party can win a two-thirds majority, he will be able to implement key reforms, including plans to boost the number of women in the workforce and a revision of the pacifist Constitution.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he hoped the first-ever change to the country's 70-year-old pacifist constitution would be enacted by 2020, and that it would enshrine the status of the military.
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Throughout his minutely detailed survey, Bouverie rightly rejects the arguments of revisionist historians who claim that Britain's lack of military preparedness, as well as the strength of pacifist public opinion, justified its determination to offer repeated concessions to Hitler.
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Several of the men I met in Kubitschek's circle also served in the military; in postwar pacifist Germany, one of them told me, it is attractive to a lot of rightists who saw German demilitarization as an emasculating development.
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Here's what you need to know: • Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party and its allies won a commanding majority in parliamentary elections, according to the public broadcaster NHK, enough to boost Mr. Abe's dream of revising the nation's pacifist Constitution.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Friday he was not a pacifist and accepted that military action was sometimes necessary, as he sought to bolster his foreign policy credentials ahead of next month's election.
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LOU HARRISON CENTENNIAL, APRIL 23 The centennial of Lou Harrison — maverick American composer, instrument inventor, pacifist and gay pioneer — was celebrated with a joyous concert at Trinity Church, featuring a fine choir and impressive percussion ensemble from Rutgers University.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Campaigning began on Thursday for Japan's July 21 upper house election, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc expected to keep a majority but perhaps with fewer seats, clouding hopes of achieving his goal of revising the pacifist constitution.
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The third is a proposed amendment to the pacifist clause of the constitution to make it clear that the Self-Defence Forces, Japan's army in all but name, is legal (the government has abandoned the idea of scrapping the clause altogether).
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democrats won a majority of seats in the upper house of parliament at an election, but failed to secure the supermajority required to change the country's pacifist constitution, a long-held goal of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister.
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On the one hand, guns have always played a role in America's Civil Rights struggle—even a pacifist like Martin Luther King Jr. kept guns around, because he understood that standing up to institutionalized oppression is a life-threatening proposition.
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But since he still has to deal with bloodthirsty ghoulies, mutated animals, and those deadly jocks, he reluctantly teams up with 12-year-old pyromaniac Angelica Green (Alyvia Alyn Lind) and jock-bully-turned-pacifist samurai Wesley Fists (Austin Crute).
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Were Abe to call a snap lower house election, he would want to seek a mandate for a major policy, such as his push to revise the pacifist, post-war constitution to clarify the ambiguous status of Japan's military, Hagiuda said.
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A cricketing legend who led Pakistan's national team to World Cup victory in 1992, Khan has earned a different reputation in recent years as a result of his pacifist stance toward extremist groups, which still loom large in the country.
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While Akihito's father was a controversial figure, Akihito "was the first post-war emperor to embrace the (pacifist) constitution and his role as a symbol of national unity", said Koichi Nakano, a political science professor at Sophia University in Tokyo.
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With the LDP and like-minded parties in control of both houses of the Diet, the way seemed clear for Mr Abe to achieve his goal of amending Japan's pacifist constitution to end the ambiguous status of the armed forces.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has achieved much of his conservative security agenda since taking office in 2012 but unless he can revive his flagging popularity, his goal of revising the pacifist constitution is likely to elude his grasp.
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TOKYO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition was on track for a big win in Sunday's election, media exit polls showed, potentially reenergising a push towards his cherished goal of revising the post-war, pacifist constitution.
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"No person in this nation has the right to take the law in his or her own hands," he said at the ashram dedicated to the father of the nation and pacifist Mahatma Gandhi, in Modi's home state of Gujarat.
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In November of 1916, Montana pacifist and suffragette Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress, and only a few months into her term Woodrow Wilson would call for a vote that would lead the country into war with Germany.
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Up in the air, however, is whether the ruling bloc, along with the smaller Japan Innovation Party and independents, will keep the two-thirds majority necessary for Abe to have a chance of achieving his goal of revising the pacifist constitution.
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QL Score: +5 Viewers have no reason not to show Morgan the same disdain Carol does Nick: While I realize it may make sense to comic book readers, the show is squandering Morgan's character by turning him into a pestering pacifist.
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"I am not a pacifist: I supported the war in Afghanistan, I supported President Clinton's effort to deal with ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, I support air strikes in Syria," Sanders said at a Democratic presidential debate on CNN in October.
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However, NHK said the ruling bloc and its allies fell short of the 85 seats needed to retain the two-thirds "super majority" required to begin revising the constitution's pacifist Article 9 to further legitimize the military, a controversial step.
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Here, for example, Edward Hicks's early utopian-pacifist 1830s "The Peaceable Kingdom" is set beside a later George Caleb Bingham painting of men, apparently frontier settlers, competing in a rifle match for a prize beef cow, which awaits its fate nearby.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - - Japan could hold its first referendum on revising its pacifist constitution next year, a historic step which if successful would cement Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative legacy but risks splitting the public and worrying China and South Korea.
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TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seeking to allay concern he would divert attention from fixing a fragile economy to revising a pacifist constitution after a big election win, said on Monday changing the charter would not be easy.
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To understand the placement of this film on this list is to imagine a soldier named Desmond Doss, played by Andrew Garfield, rummaging through bodies absent a gun because his pacifist beliefs as a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian don't allow it.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his candidacy on Sunday for a ruling party leadership election he is expected to win, despite low expectations for his economic policies and doubts over his push to revise the pacifist constitution.
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Related: Protests in Paris Against French Labor Law Descend Into Clashes "When I hear pacifist and non-violent rhetoric, I can understand, because sometimes it's not strategic to break stuff because it can compromise the rest of the protest," said Pierre.
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In introducing the national party, Ms. Koike, who is hawkish on security and supports Mr. Abe's efforts to revise the pacifist Constitution, sought to differentiate it from the governing party by declaring she wanted to eliminate nuclear power in Japan.
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Takahashi melts, cools, fuses and polishes glass shapes in cartoonish shades (royal purple, aquamarine) to create crayon-box-size statues that resemble, say, an Olympic torch from the year 2080 or a religious totem from a dreamed-up pacifist cult.
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Moses Wright, Simeon's father and Emmett's great-uncle, was a pacifist who had been jailed for refusing to register for the draft in World War I. But he bravely testified when Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milam were tried for murder.
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He was the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to die in state custody since Carl von Ossietzky, the German pacifist and foe of Nazism who won the prize in 22009 and died under guard in 28 after years of maltreatment.
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But the Japanese remain deeply unnerved about Mr. Trump as they view his statements and the suggestion that Japan should acquire its own nuclear arsenal as undermining its strategic alliance with the United States and antithetical to the country's pacifist Constitution.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory on Sunday in an election for parliament's upper house, despite concerns about his economic policies and plans to revise the nation's post-war pacifist constitution for the first time.
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But while Nakasone, prime minister from 1982 to 1987, boosted Japan's global profile, he failed to achieve his dream of revising the country's pacifist, U.S.-drafted constitution to clarify the ambiguous status of the military and bolster its international role.
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Hickenlooper criticized other Democrats for wanting to "withdraw from our global leadership role," and said he would use "constant engagement" to expand trade, modernize the military and form strong global alliances, taking an "activist, not a pacifist" approach to foreign policy.
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Mrs von der Leyen inherited a department scarred by decades of hierarchical conservatism, strategic sluggishness and underfunding and has led it during a period when pacifist, cautious Germany has undertaken recently unimaginable foreign military commitments in places like Mali, Iraq and Lithuania.
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Koike's party is insisting those who want to run on its ticket sign a policy pledge, including revising the pacifist constitution and exercising the right of collective self-defense, or militarily aiding allies under attack-defense, a document seen by Reuters showed.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a huge election win for lawmakers who favor revising Japan's post-war, pacifist constitution, signaled a push towards his long-held goal on Monday but will need to convince a divided public to succeed.
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The war years had generated a rash of writings from all sides of the political spectrum, and Orwell preserved 2,700 of them for the record, including one titled "What are you Going to do About It?" from 1936, by avowed pacifist Aldous Huxley.
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Outrage over alleged murder The plan was to boost Abe's stature in the run up to elections for the Upper House of the Diet -- and possibly a double snap election for the lower house as he gears up to revise Japan's pacifist constitution.
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After its disastrous defeat in World War II, Tokyo renounced years of warfare in favor of a pacifist outlook, vowing to only use force to protect the Japanese homeland in the event of an attack — never to wage war on an enemy unprovoked.
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 71 of the 124 seats in the 245-member House of Councillors, according to public broadcaster NHK, falling short of the super majority required to complete its longstanding goal of changing the county's pacifist constitution.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Pledges to spend on education and child care, stay tough on North Korea and revise the pacifist constitution are likely to be pillars of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign in a snap election next month, government sources said on Tuesday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc won a solid majority in an upper house election on Sunday but his coalition and allies fell short of a two-thirds majority needed to begin revising the pacifist constitution, public broadcaster NHK said.
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As they see it, Mr Abe used his monetary and fiscal powers not to boost productivity, but to buy popularity, allowing him to advance his nationalist aim of revising Japan's American-written pacifist constitution, a legacy of military defeat over 70 years ago.
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Seven decades after World War II, Mr. Abe's governing Liberal Democratic Party says the constraints placed on Japan in the conflict's aftermath are outdated and enfeebling, and it has proposed an array of constitutional amendments, including a rollback of the charter's pacifist clauses.
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Ever mindful of its Nazi past, and its four decades as a divided country, Germany often wraps its policies in the mantle of Europe and has developed a pacifist instinct that is a poor fit with the expectations that it must now lead.
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Adjacent to her privilege is the fact that she lived well outside of social norms in her time: a pacifist who argued regularly and publicly against militarism; a woman who had numerous female lovers and dressed in clothes styled to mimic men's garments.
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Though Japan&aposs pacifist strategic posture outlived the Cold War, it has steadily eroded in the 21st century as Washington urged it to beef up its military and because of Tokyo&aposs concern that the US commitment to Japanese national defense could waver.
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"Hacksaw Ridge," is based on the true story of Desmond Doss, a pacifist army medic who served on the frontlines in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 without ever touching a gun, and was awarded a Medal of Honor for his service.
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But Koichi Nakano, Political Science professor at Sophia University, told CNN Abe's opponents are angry their supposed ally in Washington was making Japan less safe under President Trump and want to soften their ties to the US, while upholding their nation's pacifist values.
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He dies heroically quoting pacifist wisdom from the book back to a distraught Morgan: "If I injure my opponent, I injure myself," and it's to "Bury Me Here" director Alrick Riley's credit that he downplays how maudlin and ironic this scene is.
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While many in Japan are hesitant to use bushido in relation to the Japanese military, the rise of China is fueling efforts to alter Japan's pacifist constitution to enable its self-defense forces to take a more aggressive stand in some areas.
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In other recent developments: Japanese lawmakers have begun pushing more aggressively for the country's military to develop the ability to carry out pre-emptive strikes on North Korean weapons sites, Reuters reported Wednesday, in a challenge to the country's pacifist post-war tradition.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe drafted the popular son of ex-premier Junichiro Koizumi in a broad reshuffle on Wednesday that also packed his cabinet with conservative allies, as he faces a tax rise and aims to amend the pacifist constitution.
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As soon as advertisements for "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" — an unlikely masterpiece about a family of cannibals directed by a pacifist and distributed by the company behind "Deep Throat" — started appearing across the country in 1974, the lexicon of fear forever changed.
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Prior to the arrival and war with The Empire, Mandalore was ruled by Duchess Satine Kryze, who was a pacifist who fought hard to keep Mandalore out of the larger conflict and bring peace to the planet despite dissidents many assassination attempts.
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TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a huge election win for lawmakers who favour revising Japan's post-war, pacifist constitution, is likely to push towards his long-held goal but will need to convince a divided public to succeed.
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It is a battle that other countries are largely sitting out, even though Mr. Liu could become the first Nobel laureate to die in state custody since Carl von Ossietzky, the German pacifist and foe of Nazism who died under guard in 2008.
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