”Chapter 6: The Article 9 "No War" Clause”. Country Studies: Japan. USA:s kongressbibliotek. http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html. Läst 15 maj 2010. ”It (the constitution) contains two paragraphs: the first states that the Japanese people 'forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes'; the second states that 'land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential will never be maintained'.”(engelska)
”Chapter 8: The Self-Defense Forces”. Country Studies: Japan. USA:s kongressbibliotek. http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html. Läst 15 maj 2010. ”In June 1992, the National Diet passed a UN Peacekeeping Cooperation Law which permitted the SDF to participate in UN medical, refugee aid, transportation, infrastructural repair, election-monitoring, and policing operations under strictly limited conditions.”(engelska)
