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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (221180)	2/28/2005 2:24:01 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588363

Maybe Japan's imperialistic past, which led to them being the only country ever to get nuked, has something to do with their extreme pacifism. Japan had it written into their post WW2 constitution that they can't send their military forces over seas for ANY reason. They revised the constitution to send some support to Iraq. Prior to the revision, its pretty hard to be anything other than an extreme pacifist if you can't deploy troops. And Japan's period of Imperialism was fairly brief relative to many other countries. For something like 300 years they were in fact completely closed off to outside countries, something like 1570 to 1870. They had one outpost (I think at Nagasaki) which was sort of a Hong Kong international trade area, and the rest of the country had zero contact with the outside world.