tokyo it is unacceptable for a government to be unable to protect its own citizens that is why abe is determined to amend or at least reinterpret japans constitution to allow for the kinds of defense maneuvers that other countries from israel to india employ when their people are threatened as us supreme court justice robert jackson once put it a constitution is not a suicide pact hostage crisis shows how japan fails to protect its citizens and what its doing about it i was quite literally born into the civil rights movement in 1959 as my mother and father were already deeply committed to changing the world for the better by simply getting married a handsome negro man to a strikingly beautiful aristocratic blueeyed blonde in memory of martin luther king jr the providence of hope for a new generation