pacifist
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Takaichi has also accelerated a beefing up of Japan's military capabilities as its sheds its strict pacifist stance in place since the war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Nimbly, it manages to be both a pacifist film and a subversive one with no faith in the system as it stands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Miyazaki is a noted pacifist, but “Princess Mononoke” is his most humanist work.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Japan must "strengthen its defence capabilities", Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has told the BBC, emphasising the need to revisit the pacifist posture that has defined the country since World War Two.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
In April 1921 his wife, a well-known pacifist and suffragette named Jessie Hardy Stubbs, flung herself off a bridge over the East River in New York and drowned.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Mr. Kurlansky’s heart seems to lie with the pacifists, even as he recognizes their practical shortcomings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
And such a recognition wasn’t confined to pacifists but extended to policymakers.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025
The Amish are pacifists, he hastened to add.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
Both are pacifists who raised their children at the kibbutz, where everybody knows their neighbors.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
The guards, some of whom had previously identified themselves as pacifists, fell quickly into the role of hard-bitten disciplinarians.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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