When World War II broke out, he declared himself a pacifist, and even fled to America.
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And all this without revising the pacifist constitution to which most Japanese had grown attached.
Being the first constitutionally pacifist nation even gave them a warm glow of moral superiority.
In the years leading up to World War I, Hubbard became more of a pacifist.
The image of Hirohito as a pacifist patriot forms the core of Japan's modern orthodoxy.
What's more, the effort to preserve the Emperor's pacifist image didn't end with his death.
He can also claim sound judgment: though no pacifist, he opposed the Iraq war from the start.
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When drafted in 1942, he overcame his pacifist scruples and joined the navy as a junior officer.
And as he learned more about the extremes of fascism and communism, he became a convinced pacifist.
He is also pushing for a revision of Japan's pacifist constitution to ease tight restrictions on the armed forces.
Albert Beale, of the pacifist Peace Pledge Union, said he disagreed with the concept of an Armed Forces Day.
Some people in the land of pacifist Mohandas Gandhi are discovering that there is a point to violence: profit.
And until Hitler caused him to revise his geopolitical equations, he was an instinctive pacifist who celebrated resistance to war.
Figuring his political career was over, Kucinich launched into a lengthy period of self-reflection and emerged as a committed pacifist.
On the surface Watling was gentle and unassuming, a vegetarian and pacifist who always wore sandals, even in the snow.
Second thing -- even if you're not a pacifist, whenever possible, peace and nonviolence is always the right thing to do.
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He also broke the Greens' pacifist tradition by taking Germany into the war in Kosovo (of which Mr Lafontaine passionately disapproved).
The troop plan is a controversial one for Japan with many critics saying such a dispatch violates the nation's pacifist constitution.
To shore up votes for Kadima and Labor, the media had to swallow their pacifist pride and rally around the flag.
Japan has been since 1945 and will continue to be deeply pacifist.
At home, first use provoked protest from the pacifist left, most dramatically against President Reagan, who was portrayed as a nuclear cowboy.
For openers, he was a pacifist who refused to serve in World War II, instead registering in 1942 as a conscientious objector.
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They want to renounce the pacifist constitution foisted on Japan by America.
Germany's pacifist reflex has not only complicated NATO's operational planning for Libya.
The pacifist stance is only viable when one lives in a society with others who are willing to take up arms in self-defense.
His first premiership of 2006-2007 is generally seen to have failed because of his attempts to prioritize amending the country's pacifist constitution.
Though ever more militant, on March 22nd the Kosovo Albanians nonetheless re-elected their pacifist leader, Ibrahim Rugova, as president of their self-declared republic.
His first premiership of 2006-2007 is generally seen to have failed because of his misguided attempts to prioritize amending the country's pacifist constitution.
In recent days, he has ramped up discussions for implementing the first revision in Japan's pacifist constitution since its enactment nearly seven decades ago.
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