A group of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan has released a proposal demanding that a new Constitution allow Japan to possess nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in the future.
The DPJ group called Sohken Kaigi (the conference for creating a new constitution) is composed of lawmakers who belonged to the former Democratic Socialist Party.
The group led by Yonezawa Takashi, a House of Representatives member, released its proposal on February 15.
It calls for deleting or amending Clause 2 Article 9 renouncing Japan's war potential because it is nonsense.
The proposal also stresses that Japan must be cautious about maintaining the three Non-Nuclear Principles or declaring that it bans possessing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
Akahata of February 18 warned that this proposal is tantamount to a call for the amendment to the Constitution so that Japan may possess nuclear weapons and other kinds of weapons of mass destruction in the future.