Japans Contested Constitution

Author : Glenn D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134549881
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's Contested Constitution written by Glenn D. Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's Contested Constitution is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Japanese domestic politics and the international role of Japan. Subjects covered include; * the no war, `pacifist' clause * tension between the constitution and the US-Japan security treaty * the political import of the constitution for Japanese political parties * the significance of the constitution for the Japanese people

Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793609055
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism written by Helen Hardacre and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas.

Author : Glenn D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113454989X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's Contested Constitution written by Glenn D. Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's Contested Constitution is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Japanese domestic politics and the international role of Japan. Subjects covered include; * the no war, `pacifist' clause * tension between the constitution and the US-Japan security treaty * the political import of the constitution for Japanese political parties * the significance of the constitution for the Japanese people

Author : Arthur Stockwin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498537936
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Japan written by Arthur Stockwin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors argue that with the election of the Abe Government in December 2012, Japanese politics has entered a radically new phase they describe as the “2012 Political System.” The system began with the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), after three years in opposition, but in a much stronger electoral position than previous LDP-based administrations in earlier decades. Moreover, with the decline of previously endemic intra-party factionalism, the LDP has united around an essentially nationalist agenda never absent from the party’s ranks, but in the past was generally blocked, or modified, by factions of more liberal persuasion. Opposition weakness following the severe defeat of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration in 2012 has also enabled the Abe Government to establish a political stability largely lacking since the 1990s. The first four chapters deal with Japanese political development since 1945 and factors leading to the emergence of Abe Shinzō as Prime Minister in 2012. Chapter 5 examines the Abe Government’s flagship economic policy, dubbed “Abenomics.” The authors then analyse four highly controversial objectives promoted by the Abe Government: revision of the 1947 ‘Peace Constitution’; the introduction of a Secrecy Law; historical revision, national identity and issues of war apology; and revised constitutional interpretation permitting collective defence. In the final three chapters they turn to foreign policy, first examining relations with China, Russia and the two Koreas, second Japan and the wider world, including public diplomacy, economic relations and overseas development aid, and finally, the vexed question of how far Japanese policies are as reactive to foreign pressure. In the Conclusion, the authors ask how far right wing trends in Japan exhibit common causality with shifts to the right in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. They argue that although in Japan immigration has been a relatively minor factor, economic stagnation, demographic decline, a sense of regional insecurity in the face of challenges from China and North Korea, and widening gaps in life chances, bear comparison with trends elsewhere. Nevertheless, they maintain that “[a] more sane regional future may be possible in East Asia.”

Author : Kyoko Inoue
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226383910
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MacArthur's Japanese Constitution written by Kyoko Inoue and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese constitution as revised by General MacArthur in 1946, while generally regarded to be an outstanding basis for a liberal democracy, is at the same time widely considered to be—in its Japanese form—an document which is alien and incompatible with Japanese culture. Using both linguistics and historical data, Kyoto Inoue argues that despite the inclusion of alien concepts and ideas, this constitution is nonetheless fundamentally a Japanese document that can stand on its own. "This is an important book. . . . This is the most significant work on postwar Japanese constitutional history to appear in the West. It is highly instructive about the century-long process of cultural conflict in the evolution of government and society in modern Japan."—Thomas W. Burkman, Monumenta Nipponica

Author : Koseki Shoichi
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution written by Koseki Shoichi and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1989 Yoshino Sakuzo Prize-winning book is essential reading for understanding Japan's postwar constitution, political and social history and foreign policy. The most complete English account, it analyzes the dramatic events of 1945-1946 that led to the birth of Japan's new constitution. Bibliography. Notes. Index.

Author : Hirobumi Itō
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan written by Hirobumi Itō and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Constitution written by and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary-resource anthology of Japanese viewson Constitutional reform with vital insights from standard andnon-standard players alike

Author : Yōichi Higuchi
Publisher : 東京大学出版会
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Decades of Constitutionalism in Japanese Society written by Yōichi Higuchi and published by 東京大学出版会. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 日本国憲法50年のアポリアを、18人の第一線憲法研究者が論じる、書下し論集。

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Constitution of Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: