Glenn D Hook, Gavan McCormack

Japan's Contested Constitution

Documents and Analysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes available in English the four key proposals on constitutional reform already in the public domain in Japan. The book is unique in that it is the only book to bring together these documents (some of which are presented in English translation for the very first time) all in one volume. These proposals form the backdrop against which the constitutional debate will evolve. Hook and McCormack place these documents in their historical and contemporary context, providing an analysis of their meaning in the development of post-war thinking on the constitution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• 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)