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.
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.
Albert Beale, of the pacifist Peace Pledge Union, said he disagreed with the concept of an Armed Forces Day.
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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).
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.
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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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.
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.
In Japan, a country with a strong modern pacifist streak, winning the hearts and minds of the citizenry may be the military's biggest battle.
The move, noteworthy for a country with a pacifist constitution, is aimed at shooting down any debris from the launch that might fall into Japanese territory.
But now Japan is having to overcome its pacifist past and, in cooperation with the U.S., clear the technological hurdles that have left America's own multibillion-dollar antimissile program mired.
There was a kind of half-warrior, half-pacifist hermeneutics in play, during which we spent our time reacting to what philosopher Michel Serres called "the signal fires and foghorns" of the adversary.
Following World War II, lawmakers forged a pacifist constitution.
Mr Obama has never claimed to be a pacifist.
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Opinion polls suggest that the most popular politician among the Kosovars is still Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist leader who led the province's shadow administration when it was still under direct Serb control.
They both involve a way for people to vent aggression in a pacifist kind of way, Instead of shooting someone, you can rap it about being violent or vent it in a game.
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They are torn by leadership disputes and, since entering the federal government for the first time in 1998, have lost much of their appeal as a somewhat wacky, pacifist protest party of the left.
But the decision looks set to put added strain on Schroeder's coalition with the pacifist-leaning Greens party, several prominent members of which have called for a halt to the U.S. bombing raids on Afghanistan.
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