first address to Ambassador Nye

Dear Ambassador Joseph Nye:

My name is Nobuyoshi Ozaki. My wife and I are residents of swampy Louisiana.

I am Spokesman for Falcons Society of Japan.

First, we would like to express our happiness by congratulating this new president of the United States of America.

We welcome President Barack Obama, Sceretary of State Madam Hillary Clinton and Ambassador Joseph Nye to our country Japan.

Ambassador Nye, this is our first message to you and we will continue to post our message every Sunday in the coming 100 Days.

We intend to propose ideas, express our concerns and discuss changing our Pacifist Constitution.

In short, we would like to remove Article 9 in order to become your equal partner, a true ally as an independent state and have responsibility for our own national security.

In order to have a peaceful world we must consider every possible means to stop unnecessary wars. We Japanese prefer first soft power as you recomended, second smart power and hard power only as a last resort.

We have studied Mr. Armitage and Dr. Nye’s CSIS Reports. We have also read former Ambassador Sheiffer’s farewell speech at the Japanese National Press Club.

These reports helped us to understand the seriousness of this issue.

Falcons Society is not a right wing organization, nor a political party. We are ordinary Japanese citizens.

Our society is supported by about 1000 people- young, old, women and men.

The falcon is not a symbol of hawkish attitudes. We chose the falcon because of its bird eye view of the world, its decisiveness and its flying speed.

We Japanese have hope, as well as you Americans have when a young, intelligent, energetic American President says “change, yes we can.”

We the Japanese truly believe that we can change our constitution with your coordination.

We know Americans are sincere people. We are looking forward to working with you to accomplish our mission.

See you all next Sunday. Thank you.