Japan once invaded Asian countries and put them under its colonial rule, It committed atrocities against humanity such as mass killing and plunder, imposing immeasurable sacrifice upon the people in those countries. Japanese women at that time were forced to send their husbands and sons to the battlefield. Japan must not repeat the same error. The Constitution of Japan was born from such reflection on the war of aggression. The NJWA at once took action calling for the War Bills to be scrapped.
Silence is complicity.
Following this successful action, women organized the May 7 Grand Women's Rally. Women took part in actions throughout the country, collecting signatures and mobilizing people to send Diet members letters requesting them to oppose the War Bills. Now that it has forcibly passed the War Bills, the government intends to propose wartime legislation. Developing united actions among the broadest sections of people based on the agreed point of defending Article 9. we continue our fight to prevent the War Bills from being invoked and wartime legislation from being enacted. The bombing destroyed the land, polluted the natural environment, and caused immense damage to innocent children, women, elderly people and other civilians of the country.