They are absolutely opposed to sending troops overseas, and want to reclaim the much-needed land now used by JDF and U.S. bases for housing, farming, and environmental protection. The SDP has announced it will dissolve now to form a new party, discarding all the political commitments it made in the past. The government renounces war but does not renounce nuclear weapons. In fact, it has a new agreement with the U.S. to join research in developing plutonium. Japan has developed much high-tech equipment in joint research with the U.S. which ultimately is used for military purposes.
Japan says the export of arms is strictly banned.
But high technology can't be strictly defined as weapons or peace. In the 1980's India proposed to the United Nations making the Indian Ocean a Zone of Peace.