Eighty years after the guns fell silent, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stood before the United Nations to ask that its founding document finally reflect the world as it is, not as it was. Buried in Articles 53 and 107 of the UN Charter, a wartime designation still marks Japan as an 'enemy state' — language that China and Russia have recently revived as a diplomatic weapon to question Japan's legitimacy in international affairs. Takaichi's call is both a matter of historical justice and present-day strategy: in an era of rising regional tensions, the words a founding document uses still