WEBVTT 00:00:01.189 --> 00:00:11.992 (Former MIC Minister, Yoshitaka Shindo) Finally, the time has come for us to be able to revise the constitution 00:00:11.992 --> 00:00:15.699 But we can not prolong it any further 00:00:15.699 --> 00:00:19.298 (Former MOJ Minister, Jinen Nagase) The draft of constitution has been announced 00:00:19.298 --> 00:00:22.677 To be honest, I'm not happy with (the draft) 00:00:22.677 --> 00:00:26.588 What it's saying, in the first of all, is... 00:00:26.588 --> 00:00:31.132 popular sovereignty, basic human rights, pacifism... 00:00:31.132 --> 00:00:33.262 it's saying that it will protect them 00:00:33.262 --> 00:00:39.212 If we don't get rid of those three things, it won't be a true, independent constitution 00:00:39.212 --> 00:00:44.686 Audience claps 00:00:44.686 --> 00:00:47.686 For example, when we were told "human rights are so and so"... 00:00:47.686 --> 00:00:49.616 and how "peace is so and so"... 00:00:49.616 --> 00:00:51.523 Don't we feel intimidated? 00:00:51.523 --> 00:00:53.484 That's because we have been taught that 00:00:53.484 --> 00:00:55.770 over and over since the elementary school! 00:00:55.770 --> 00:00:58.237 To be able to restore it will be a difficult task 00:00:58.237 --> 00:01:00.947 So let us stand together and fight on. 00:01:05.452 --> 00:01:09.295 (Former MOFA Deputy Minister Minoru Kiuchi) What I think is the most important thing in Japan is... 00:01:09.295 --> 00:01:13.675 it is Imperial House of Japan, and it is Kokutai (nationalist idea of a state) 00:01:13.675 --> 00:01:16.433 We'd have to prepare to protect 00:01:16.433 --> 00:01:21.104 our history, our tradition, our national character... 00:01:21.104 --> 00:01:26.904 (LDP Chairwoman of the Policy Research Council, Tomomi Inada ) We have submitted a draft of constitution that allow us to create a national defense force 00:01:26.905 --> 00:01:30.455 (Former MIC Minister, Yoshitaka Shindo) But what we really need right now... is to take action. 00:01:30.455 --> 00:01:32.281 To actualize it into reality 00:01:32.281 --> 00:01:34.432 Everyone, let us revise the constitution! 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:42.074 Let us take back our territories that are taken away from us! 00:01:42.074 --> 00:01:45.866 Northern Territories! Takeshima! 00:01:45.866 --> 00:01:49.113 Just asserting it won't do, we must take action 00:01:49.113 --> 00:01:54.486 Also, Senkaku Islands. Let's use it. Let us use military action. 00:01:55.727 --> 00:02:03.835 Seiichi Eto (Special Adviser to the PM, Nippon Kaigi member) 00:02:04.343 --> 00:02:11.086 Shimomura Hakubun (Chief Secretary of Nippon Kaigi, former Parliamentary Secretary for Justice Minister) 00:02:12.681 --> 00:02:16.921 Yoshitaka Shindo (Affiliated to Nippon Kaigi, Former MIC Minister) 00:02:17.209 --> 00:02:19.863 Minoru Kiuchi (Affiliated to Nippon Kaigi, former MOFA Deputy Minister) 00:02:19.875 --> 00:02:23.840 Tomomi Inada (Affiliated to Nippon Kaigi, LDP Chairwoman of the Policy Research Council) 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:27.928 Yoshihisa Furukawa (Member of Nippon Kaigi Diet Member Conference, Lower House Diet Representative) 00:02:27.935 --> 00:02:31.290 Jinen Nagase (Member of Nippon Kaigi Diet Member Conference, former Ministry of Justice Minister)