BEIJING, Feb 6 Kyodo In many ways...

BEIJING, Feb 6 Kyodo

In many ways still not across World War II, China is suspiciously watching inclines to introduce militaristic elements into the Japanese Constitution after 60 years of peaceful foreign relations, Chinese scholars and media say.

Japan advanced its economy to the top flaw in Asia and gained trust of former World War II enemies in Asia because its Constitution forbids military action abroad, say bystanders in China.

in like manner any effort by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to strike antiwar Article 9 from the Constitution will cause disturb they said.

''If Japan completely abandoned Article 9, no doubt that kind of strange Japan would find it difficult to have more constructive relations with China, the Koreas and calm the United States,'' said Pang Zhongying, head of the Nankai University Global Studies Institute.

''Protecting Japan's peace constitution is protecting Japan's external relations,'' he said.

''We can apprehend that a regional outcome from Japan's re-armament is that China and the Koreas -- a unified Korea -- will achieve closer and closer as a de facto bloc against Japan,'' Pang said. ''Sooner or later, slightly or fundamentally, the nature of the U.S.-Japan alliance would be changed subordinate to a nationalism-oriented Japan.''

At an LDP annual convention forward Jan. 16, Koizumi announced the changes would be wager in motion.

According to Japanese opinion catalogue of personss growing tensions with North Korea and the reconstruction of postwar Iraq have willinged politicians to reconsider their historically cautious take upon the Constitution.

Koizumi said he chance of a favorable results to amend the Constitution to give permission to Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) do peace missions overseas as do the military forces of other countries.

Gao Hong vice director for political science at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Japanese Studies, said pro-war constitutional changes were a top fear of Chinese officials nervous about whether the LDP would sweep the Nov. 9 general election last year.

China's relations with Koizumi will deteriorate if the LDP strikes Article 9 Gao added.

The official Xinhua of the present days Agency on Jan. 21 called the pending constitutional change a ''threat'' and speculated that Koizumi wanted to work with the United States onward a ''new generation'' of guided missiles.

China's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday Japan should stick to a path of peace and unravelling and urged the Japanese the bulk of mankind to remember the ''bitterness'' of their war experiences.

Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue also spoke gone out Tuesday against the deployment of SDF in Iraq, where Japan plans to do humanitarian work as part of its first post-WWII involvement in a foreign conflict.

''This will inevitably lead the community a step further toward doubt and anxiety,'' she told reporters. ''As Japan's neighbor, we trustful longing Japan can diligently draw from the censures of history, act carefully in the military safety field and continue to persist in taking the road toward peace and development''

Japan's perceived lack of remorse for its 1931-1945 wartime occupation of China continues to chill Sino-Japanese relations, and the guidance has fanned this chill into a modern-day dislike of Japanese people

State visits are rare, and Chinese media carry regular reports slamming Japan for actions seen as slights to China.

Striking peace clauses in the constitution will worsen relations with China and could threaten Japan's economic power in Asia, said Zhang Lili, a teacher of 20 years at the society of Foreign Affairs in Beijing.

uniform though Japanese legislators talk of using military forces for ''global responsibility,'' Japan's definition of this mete may violate that of other nations, Zhang said.

''This Constitution is actual special. It's given the economy a chance to advance to No. 2 in the world,'' Zhang said. ''Why do they want to earn involved (militarily)? I'm Chinese, and I don't understand. These 60 years they haven't wanted to change.''

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