ABSTRACT
Under pressure from MacArthur, the constitution was thus born in full view of an "agonizing" Yoshida. Daruma could not arise until the United States reversed its policy for the occupation of Japan. The review of the constitution became an issue in Japan in August 1948, after the formation of the Ashida cabinet. From the mid-1950s Article 9 (renunciation of war) was always mentioned whenever the topic of constitutional revision was broached. The road along which the new constitution would travel thereafter would be increasingly dangerous. As the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union developed, Japan was increasingly incorporated into a security relationship with the United States from the time of the Korean War to the signing of the Security Treaty in 1951. Within that relationship views about the Japanese Constitution alternated between demands for "enacting an independent constitution" and defending the "peace constitution".
