Glenn D. Hook, Gavan McCormack

Japan's Contested Constitution

Documents and Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9780415240994
• ISBN-10: 0415240999
• Artikelnr.: 22483618

Autorenporträt

Glenn D. Hook, Gavan McCormack

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Analysis Parchment and politics: Japan's living constitution
Introduction 1. Origins 2. Contested constitutionalism: the Cold War
decades 3. Normative implications of the constitution 4. Okinawa 5.
Anti-constitutional radicalism 6. Post Cold war: Searching for new
arrangements 7. Revision Conclusion Part 2. Documents 1. A proposal for the
revision of the text of the Constitution of Japan (1994) Yomiuri Shimbun 2.
Peace and regional security in the Asia-Pacific: a Japanese proposal
(1993-94) sekai 3. International cooperation and the constitution (1995)
Ashai Shimbun 4. A proposal for reforming the Japanese Constitution (1999):
breaking a post-war Japanese taboo, a current Japanese politician rewrites
its provisons Ozawa Ichiro Part 3. Constitution texts 1. The constitution
of the Empire of japan (meiji Constitution, 1889) 2. The Constitution of
Japan (1947)