The Japanese reactionaries' deep-rooted militarist ambition is getting more reckless.

Recently, the opposition Japanese Restoration Party has openly asserted that Paragraph 2, Article 9 of the constitution which stipulates "non-possession of combat capability" should be deleted, the exercise of the "right to collective self-defence" comprehensively should be approved and the possession of the "right to self-defence" and "defence force" should be specified in the constitution.

The Japanese conservative party, too, went extremely frantic, claiming that in order to defend Japan, it is necessary to revise the constitution stipulating that Japan shall not engage in war and that the "crime" of war was compensated for 80 years after the war.

Minor conservative political parties have joined in the attempts at constitutional revision led by the Liberal Democratic Party. This is a serious development of the situation which shows that all the militarist forces of Japan are rallying towards the goal of overseas aggression.

As recognized by the international community, Japan's political arena is the theatre of fascist rowdyism in which ultra-right elements full of militarist hysteria are rampant.

It is the stark reality of Japanese political circles that the ruling and opposition parties are making one voice in realizing the goal of completing a war-capable state even though they are biting each other for their ambition to seize power and their interests and policies.

The ultra-right conservative group of opposition parties including the Japanese Restoration Party is now at the forefront of the constitutional revision drive because the sectarian politics of the Liberal Democratic Party, which had been hell-bent on militarization of society as the "vanguard" of the campaign for constitutional revision, has fallen.

It is the Liberal Democratic Party which set the constitutional revision as the Party's "basic policy" and manoeuvred in every way to cook up the war-oriented constitution.

In September last year the Liberal Democratic Party thought out a cunning method of creating a new paragraph and specifying the existence of the "Self-Defence Forces", while keeping intact Article 9 of the present constitution which stipulates "renunciation of war" and "non-possession of combat capability." And it held the Party Congress in March this year and pledged again to realize the constitutional revision early.

But the LDP suffered a series of setbacks in both houses and was reduced to a minority to lose its function. Prime Minister Ishiba, who had pursued an ambitious plan to enforce the constitutional revision that his predecessors had not done, was forced to step down under the mounting pressure of resignation at home.

The decline of the LDP put the red light on the road ahead of the ultra-right conservative forces that have been keen on reviving the "great Japanese empire" and realizing the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" by revising the "Pacifist Constitution" for the worse.

The militarist political parties, which felt extreme fear, are throwing in their lot with the constitutional revision in a bid to bring strength to the daily-decaying LDP and thereby achieve the completion of a war-capable state in the shortest possible time.

The reality clearly proves that the political climate and inveterate nature of Japan dominated by ultra-nationalism obsessed with hatred and conquest of other nations have remained unchanged even a bit.

However, the frantic moves of the "shock brigade" for constitutional revision aimed at cooking up a war-capable state and reviving an aggressor state will rather jeopardize the future of Japan.