Author: Glenn D. Hook
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134549881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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
Japan's Contested Constitution
Author: Glenn D. Hook
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134549881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134549881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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
Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism
Author: Helen Hardacre
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793609055
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793609055
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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.
Japan's Contested Constitution
Author: Glenn D. Hook
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113454989X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
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
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113454989X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
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
Rethinking Japan
Author: Arthur Stockwin
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498537936
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.”
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498537936
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.”
MacArthur's Japanese Constitution
Author: Kyoko Inoue
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226383910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226383910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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
The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution
Author: Koseki Shoichi
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan
Author: Hirobumi Itō
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Rethinking the Constitution
Author:
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A primary-resource anthology of Japanese viewson Constitutional reform with vital insights from standard andnon-standard players alike
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A primary-resource anthology of Japanese viewson Constitutional reform with vital insights from standard andnon-standard players alike
Five Decades of Constitutionalism in Japanese Society
Author: Yōichi Higuchi
Publisher: 東京大学出版会
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : de
Pages : 376
Book Description
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。
Publisher: 東京大学出版会
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : de
Pages : 376
Book Description
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。
Framing the Constitution of Japan
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description