Question

To become a democratic nation after World War II, Japan took all of the following steps except ____.

A. Establishing its right to make war and maintain a military
B. Putting its military leaders on trial for war crimes
C. Setting up a parliamentary government
D. Writing a new constitution

Answer 1

The first alternative is correct (A).

After the atrocities of the Second World War, war crimes were tried and Japan devised a reconstruction project. A new constitution was created with a passive bias, in which in its ninth article the country renounces the right to have an army and the declare war. In the same constitution, Japan establishes a parliamentary system of government