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After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Kenzaburo Oe
War, Forever, World
"Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.