# National Defense, Voting Rights and the Constitution

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/1053648606538788864
- Source account: [@batayanF3](https://x.com/batayanF3)
- Source language: Japanese
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:52
- Published: 2026-11-06
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/ja/%E6%86%B2%E6%B3%95%E3%81%A8%E5%9B%BD%E9%98%B2%E3%81%AE%E7%BE%A9%E5%8B%99-%E5%80%8B%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E6%A8%A9%E5%88%A9%E3%82%92%E3%82%81%E3%81%90%E3%82%8B%E7%99%BA%E8%A8%80.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution) Politics that puts the people's lives first— well, I think that's wrong.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=3) I think that's wrong. It's possible, and then it's possible—pacifism, You have to make that person…

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=12) The Constitution won't do. We haven't prepared one at all.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=17) Every single citizen, each and every one of you, has to be prepared to shed blood.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=24) So, individual rights, individual rights, the individual…

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=27) In order to protect something greater, you want to suppress individual rights and weed out the current…

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=33) The Constitution doesn't even have provisions for that kind of spirit anymore, The Constitution has something called a state of emergency declaration, in the law— declaring a state of emergency based on the law.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=44) It's paired with the duty of national defense for everyone at eighteen.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=47) Because we have a duty to defend this country, we exercise our rights as sovereign citizens, and hold the right to vote, the greatest exercise of those rights.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=54) Does that duty of national defense exist in Japan?

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=59) It's not written in the Constitution at all, but whether it's written there or not, it's unthinkable that sovereign citizens would have no duty to defend the country.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=68) Well, they’re opposing the new voting system.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=72) Who would risk their life for me out on the streets?

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=76) There are more teachers than available positions.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=80) During the Great East Japan Earthquake, 1,300 female staff members…

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=84) …without waiting until things got this bad.

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=87) For their sake. It won't stop. What she experienced, That will become an irreplaceable source of pride for her homeland.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4KJC1nsOvpQ2/en/national-defense-voting-rights-and-the-constitution?t=102) They’re fools, but they won’t end up just being fools.