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CONSTITUTION

JAPAN / Politics
Jul 10, 2015
Ishin, DPJ press ruling coalition to amend security bills ahead of Lower House vote
With passage of the government’s national security bills through the Lower House coming into sight, deliberations on counterproposals submitted by the two largest opposition parties kicked off Friday at a special Lower House committee, in parallel with the state-sponsored legislation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 9, 2015
LDP, DPJ take to Internet to mount security bill-related campaigns of persuasion
As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to ram through legislation that would drastically alter Japan’s security stance, both the LDP and DPJ are taking their arguments to the people — via a variety of online media.
EDITORIALS
Jul 3, 2015
Abe’s poor answers on security bills
The Abe administration continues to fail to satisfactorily answer the questions that dog its proposed security legislation.
EDITORIALS
Jun 25, 2015
More time won’t justify security bills
Even if the Abe government extends the Diet session to ensure passage of its security legislation, it still must pass constitutional muster to be legitimate.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 24, 2015
Chinese officials may have to pledge allegiance to constitution
Chinese officials may have to pledge allegiance to the constitution when they take up their posts, Xinhua News Agency said on Wednesday, reporting that a draft law is being considered as part of a campaign to stamp out abuses of position.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2015
Japanese city in a dance over pop band that criticized ruling LDP
The municipal government in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, is retroactively withdrawing support for a public event after an all-girl pop group performed a song that criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 22, 2015
Diet session extended through September as Abe aims to pass contentious security bills
Abe and Komeito’s leader decide to extend the Diet session by the most days in postwar history in a bid to enact the controversial security bills.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 18, 2015
National ruckus over security bills puts spotlight on Supreme Court
The verbal war over the national security bills is heating up now that Japan’s constitutional scholars have clearly branded Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reinterpretation of war-renouncing Article 9 and all legislation based on it as unconstitutional.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 15, 2015
Scholars restate Cabinet condemnation, mock LDP’s response
Two constitutional scholars who this month rekindled debate over security reforms restate their assessment of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s security bills as unconstitutional.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 12, 2015
Japan security bills reveal irreconcilable divide between scholars, politicians
The full-scale battle over security reform highlights an unbridgeable gap between politicians and scholars that will have to be filled by Japan’s less-than-proactive Supreme Court.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 12, 2015
Political veterans warn of crisis in security revamp
In a rare show of unity, four veteran politicians from rival parties hold court at the Japan Press Club to speak out against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s security bills.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 12, 2015
Media should stop legitimizing Abe’s Article 9 ‘reinterpretation’
The media should stop giving the Abe administration’s ‘reinterpretation’ of Article 9 a legitimacy and validity that it does not enjoy under Japan’s constitutional system.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Jun 7, 2015
Hey bureaucrats, leave those kids — and teachers — alone
To look at Japan’s educational policy in action, you can’t help but wonder if insularity and mediocrity might actually be the goal.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 5, 2015
Experts’ tongue-lashing rekindles Diet debate on reinterpreted Constitution
The surprise tongue-lashing in the Diet meted out by three noted constitutional scholars has reignited debate on whether the Cabinet’s reinterpretation of Article 9 last year was legitimate.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 28, 2015
Abe says Constitution would rule out full-scale invasion, but ‘exceptions’ are unclear
As debate rages in the Diet over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s security bills, the opposition has identified a key question: Could Japan use force on foreign territory to support the U.S.?
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2015
Abe lays out scenarios for SDF dispatch if security bills pass
If contentious security reform bills are enacted by the Diet, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japanese forces could hypothetically be dispatched to mine-sweeping operations in the Strait of Hormuz.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 27, 2015
Should Japanese liberals support revising Article 9?
Rather than leave the interpretation of Article 9 to each administration, perhaps it should be revised so government policies could be placed under the potential constraints of judicial review.
JAPAN / Politics
May 26, 2015
Lower House finally takes up contentious security bills
The Lower House kicks off much-awaited deliberations on two contentious security bills that would greatly expand the scope of the Self-Defense Forces’ missions overseas, and opposition lawmakers immediately go on the attack.
JAPAN / Politics
May 20, 2015
SDF will only be deployed to ‘safe’ places, Abe says
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rebuffed criticism on Wednesday that the government’s contentious security legislation would put Self-Defense Forces personnel at greater risk, saying they would provide logistics support in areas that are safe.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
May 16, 2015
MacArthur’s JapaneseConstitution
The Constitution is one of the more controversial documents of our age. Some want it rewritten, some hold it as an inviolable sacred text. Article 9 — the article renouncing war — has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants it abolished. Yet for all the column inches...
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