Kurumi Mori

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282 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Kurumi Mori’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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What makes it even bigger is that Prime Minister Takaichi

has openly been talking about revising Article 9 of the Constitution, which is a clause that renounces war.

So when we're talking about why this matters, it's not just about the weapons.

It's kind of about this huge shift, a really big significant shift that we're seeing right

about what kind of a country Japan is going to become.

Yeah, I mean, I think we can really start looking at 2014 as kind of the beginnings of the old rules kind of chipping away.

So even though it's been ingrained in the DNA for 80 years, we have seen signs of the LDP trying to shift away from it.

So when Shinzo Abe first in 2014 started to relax some of the rules, Kishida in 2023 pushed further in trying to kind of increase defense spending.

Takaichi, our current prime minister, has now gone the furthest.

The reason why it's happening right now comes really down to geopolitics and what's happening to the rest of the world, right?

I mean, we have on one hand Japan.

When you look at a map, we're surrounded by China, Russia, North Korea, Japan.

I mean, we see them as threatening.

We also have the war in Iran, of course, the U.S.

potentially.

I mean, we're looking at them maybe not being as dependent as maybe they once were.

I mean, the government's old rules are belonging now to a different new world.

I just want to say also the Japanese public isn't necessarily fully on board.

We saw a poll out this week that shows 49 percent oppose any changes to the Constitution.

About 40% support them in the latest, according to Yomiuri Shimbun.

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