My eldest daughter has been back home(?) since yesterday. We were having this conversation while listening to the Constitution Day news.

Eldest daughter: "We can amend the Constitution to keep up with the times."

Me: "Oh, so you are a 'pro-amendment.' By the way, I'm an 'anti-amendment.'

The conversation led to, well, what we discussed the following.

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Me: "... That's why I thought that I would win if I could prevent the amendment of the Constitution until Grandpa (my father) and Grandma (my mother) passed away. Therefore, I had already won the game.

Eldest Daughter: "So, you could admit the amendment, couldn't you?"

Me: "Lately, I've been thinking, 'It would be a 'perfect game' if I could prevent it until I die."

It is crazy of me to "discuss constitutional amendments based on winning or losing"?that is why I am a "conditional constitutionalist."

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I repeat it.

(1) Amending the Constitution is both logically and practically correct.

(2) I also do not want to see a constitutional amendment in my lifetime.

I don't say, 'You have to understand,' and I'm aware that I'm saying, 'I'm messing up.

I don't believe in God, Buddha, the Bible, the Koran, the Buddhist scriptures, or anything else, but--

Nevertheless, I am one of the (somewhat unusual) Japanese citizens moved by the "Preamble" of our Peace Constitution and have reread it many times since childhood.

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The Constitution of Japan

We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for ourselves and our posterity the fruits of peaceful cooperation with all nations and the blessings of liberty throughout this land and resolved that never again shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of government, do proclaim that sovereign power resides with the people and do firmly establish this Constitution.

Government is a sacred trust of the people, the authority for which is derived from the people, the powers of which are exercised by the representatives of the people, and the benefits of which are enjoyed by the people.This is a universal principle of mankind upon which this Constitution is founded.We reject and revoke all constitutions, laws, ordinances, and rescripts in conflict herewith.

We, the Japanese people, desire peace for all time and are deeply conscious of the high ideals controlling human relationship, and we have determined to preserve our security and existence, trusting in the justice and faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world.

We desire to occupy an honored place in an international society striving for the preservation of peace, and the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance for all time from the earth.We recognize that all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want.

We believe that no nation is responsible to itself alone, but that laws of political morality are universal; and that obedience to such laws is incumbent upon all nations who would sustain their own sovereignty and justify their sovereign relationship with other nations.

We, the Japanese people, pledge our national honor to accomplish these high ideals and purposes with all our resources.

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If there is even the slightest possibility of damaging the principles of this beautiful Constitution (preamble), I would like to pass away without seeing "it."

It is a highly illogical, conceptual, and emotional statement.?So please laugh at me.