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Japans Contested Constitution

From the beginning of the year 2000, Constitutional Research Councils have been set up in both Houses of the National Diet in Japan. The constitution, adopted when Japan was defeated and occupied, defines the nature of the Japanese polity and constrains Japans military role in the world. The opening of the debate on constitutional reform is set to play a crucial role in shaping the realignment of domestic political forces and defining the international roles Japan may pursue in the new millennium.

As the Constitutional Research Councils begin their deliberations, this timely book brings together for the first time, in English translation, four of the major proposals on constitutional reform. These are the proposals of the Yomiuri and Asahi newspaper groups, one of Japans major publishing houses, Iwanami, and Ozawa Ichiro, president of the Liberal Party of Japan and a key player in Japanese politics. Hook and McCormack place these documents in their historical and contemporary context, providing a thorough analysis of their significance in the development of thought on the constitution. Subjects covered include:

• the no war, pacifist clause
• the 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 civil society in Japan.

Japans Contested Constitution: Documents and Analysis presents extensive analysis of the evolution of constitutional government in Japan and examines differing interpretations of key clauses in the constitution. It is an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in modern Japan, its politics, law and its international role.

Glenn D.Hook is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. Gavan McCormack is Research Professor of East Asian History at the Australian National University.

Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

Series Editor: Glenn D.Hook

Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield

This series, published by Routledge in association with the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield, both makes available original research on a wide range of subjects dealing with Japan and provides introductory overviews of key topics in Japanese Studies.

The Internationalization of Japan
Edited by Glenn D.Hook and Michael Weiner

Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
Michael Weiner

Japan and the Pacific Free Trade Area
Pekka Korhonen

Greater China and Japan
Prospects for an economic partnership?
Robert Taylor

The Steel Industry in Japan
A comparison with the UK
Hasegawa Harukiyo

Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan
Richard Siddle

Japans Minorities
The illusion of homogeneity
Edited by Michael Weiner

Japanese Business Management
Restructuring for low growth and globalization
Edited by Hasegawa Harukiyo and Glenn D.Hook

Japan and Asia-Pacific Integration
Pacific romances 19681996
Pekka Korhonen

Japans Economic Power and Security
Japan and North Korea
Christopher W.Hughes

Japans International Relations
Politics, economics and security
Glenn D.Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W.Hughes and Hugo Dobson

Japans Contested Constitution
Documents and analysis
Glenn D.Hook and Gavan McCormack

Japanese Education Reform
Nakasones legacy
Christopher P.Hood

The Political Economy of Japanese Globalization
Edited by Glenn D.Hook and Hasegawa Harukiyo

First published 2001
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

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2001 Glenn D.Hook and Gavan McCormack except for A Proposal for the Revision of the Text of the Constitution of Japan Yomiuri Shimbun; International Cooperation and the Constitution Asahi Shimbun; Nihonkoku Kenpou Kaisei-shian (A Proposal for Reforming the Japanese Constitution) 1999 Ozawa Ichiro, all rights reserved.
Original Japanese edition published by Bungei Shunju 1999. English translation rights reserved by Routledge, London, UK, licensed by Ozawa Ichiro arranged with Bungei Shunju Ltd, Japan.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Japans Contested Constitution: documents and analysis/Glenn D. Hook and Gavan McCormack.
p.cm.
Simultaneously published in the USA and CanadaT.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Constitutional historyJapan. 2. Constitutional lawJapan. I Hook, Glenn D. II. McCormack, Gavan.
KNX2101 .J37 2000
342.5202-dc21
00062797

ISBN 0-203-64507-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-67256-9 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-24099-9 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-24100-6 (pbk)

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Asahi Shimbun, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Iwanami Publishing Company and Liberal Party leader Ozawa Ichiro for permission to reproduce the documents included in this book. We are indebted to Chuma Kiyofuku, Llewelyn Hughes, Mizuno Koji, Nakano Kunimi, Okamoto Atsushi, and Sakamoto Yoshikazu for acting as facilitators in this regard. Finally, Verena Blechinger deserves special thanks for providing up-to-date material on the issues addressed in Part 1.

The proposal Peace and regional security in the Asia-Pacific: a Japanese proposal was first published in Sekai, April 1993 and December 1994.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for their permission to reprint material in this book. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any copyright holder who is not here acknowledged and will undertake to rectify any errors or omissions in future editions of this book.

Conventions

The convention in Japan is for the family name to be followed by the given name. This convention is followed for all Japanese persons referred to in the text and for works published in Japanese. Those published in English appear in the same order as the original. With the exception of the place names Tokyo, Kyoto and Kitakyushu, macrons are used to indicate a long vowel, as in Sato, except in the case of Japanese authors whose work is published in English. Since some Japanese authors now publish under their names in the Japanese order, and others use the Western order, confusion may be resolved by reference to the index.

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