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Creation of a UN Standing Force
2026/1/23
"There are two major roles of politics. One is to prevent the people from starving. The other, and this is the most important, is to never wage war." In my second year of high school (1967), perhaps influenced by the Vietnam War, I understood the Constitution literally. Combined with my adolescent idealism, I came to believe that unarmed neutrality was Japan's ideal state. I believed that maintaining unarmed neutrality required strengthening the United Nations and create a standing force, and that a world federation, as an extension of that, was necessary for collective security. This belief has continued to this day. However, along the way, I learned that the UN never created a standing force. In fact, the veto power of the five major powers made UN security powers ineffective. Even Switzerland, a permanently neutral country, has an army for national defense. I realized that being unarmed would be unsettling, and that the Self-Defense Forces were necessary within the scope of exclusively defensive defense. Then, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. It was a huge shock, and I pondered what I could do, but I felt helpless and helpless. However, as it was one year before the prefectural assembly election, I decided to think about it again after the election and to concentrate on election preparations. The following January, I happened to come across a piece by the late Professor Haruo Nishihara, former president of Waseda University, in which he wrote, "Japan, as a peaceful nation, should become a country whose national policy is to actively contribute to peace without relying on military force, and politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders and citizens should each use their own methods to nip conflicts in the bud, intervene in disputes and work to ease confrontations. If this is the case, young people should also be able to participate." I thought that if there was something young people could do, then surely there was some続きをみる『著作権保護のため、記事の一部のみ表示されております。』
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千葉県議会議員選挙 (2023/04/09) [当選] 14,380 票
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船橋市選挙区
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「平和の党」代表 千葉県議会議員 |
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無所属
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