# 日本国憲法 / The Constitution of Japan — 第九条 (Article 9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-9. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 日本国憲法 (The Constitution of Japan), 昭和二十一年憲法 - English title "The Constitution of Japan": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Constitution — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第九条 (Article 9) — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 1947-05-03 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-9 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九条 art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-9 **第一項** 日本国民は、正義と秩序を基調とする国際平和を誠実に希求し、国権の発動たる戦争と、武力による威嚇又は武力の行使は、国際紛争を解決する手段としては、永久にこれを放棄する。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-9/par-1 Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の目的を達するため、陸海空軍その他の戦力は、これを保持しない。国の交戦権は、これを認めない。 art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-9/par-2 In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-9/par-2: 前項 → 日本国憲法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-9/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 日本国憲法 第九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/constitution/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/321CONSTITUTION/art-9/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 日本国憲法 — the text in force from 1947-05-03 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/321CONSTITUTION/19470503_000000000000000), retrieved 2026-09-16 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — The Constitution of Japan — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/174/tb), retrieved 2026-09-16 - This site's parser, version 211 — 日本国憲法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-16