The Constitution of Japan was brought into effect two years after the end of World War II. The most well-known and controversial part of the Japanese constitution is Article 9, forbidding Japan from keeping a standing army or entering into war. Here is how Japan has broken its own laws repeatedly since 1952.

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Sources:

• Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism, 2006, by Paul Midford of the Washington East-West Centre
• Major-Power Relations in Post 9/11 Asia, by Chin Kin Wah, 2003, in the Japan Center for International Exchange
• The Comfort Zone: Japan’s Media Marketing of 9/11, 2005, by Yoneyuki Sugita of Osaka University
• 10 Years Ago, Japan went to Iraq… and Learned Nothing, Medium
• End of an Era as Japan enters Iraq, Guardian
• SDF logs cast doubt over legality of Japan's Iraq mission, Nikkei
• The Erosion of Japanese Pacifism: The Constitutionality of the U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines", Cornell International Law Journal 32 (1999), Robert A. Fisher
• 2015 change to JSDF deployment, Reuters