On May 3, as Japan celebrated Constitution Day or Kenpō Kinenbi, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlined his plans to revise its post-war pacifist Constitution, which...
It must be difficult to be the president of South Korea. That is what I thought while watching the news of former South Korean President...
“Do not make a parapet out of the throne.” In 1913, “god of constitutional government” Ozaki Yukio wrote those words that now apply perfectly...
A select committee of government officials has presented to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe its final report on the issue of the Emperor’s abdication. The report...
The front page of the Sankei Shimbun morning edition on April 26, 2013. The newspaper announces the draft of “National Constitution of Japan”. The...
The Japan’s Diet was open to public on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 as Japan marks the 70th anniversary of the coming into force of its post-war Constitution . (Photo by...
Japan’s post-war Constitution On Wednesday, May 3, Japan observes the 70th anniversary of the coming into force of Japan’s post-war Constitution. At the center of...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday, May 1, that this year is the right time to “take a historic step” in rewriting the war-renouncing Constitution....
U.S. President Donald Trump appears on stage at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 29, 2017. REUTERS Dan Schneider, executive director of the the...
Reconstruction Minister Masahiro Imamura submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the morning of Wednesday, April 26, one day after causing an uproar with...
Since the inauguration of the government’s second administration, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has met five times with a certain civilian to exchange opinions on international affairs,...
In Saipan, a commonwealth of the United States, there is a bronze statue of a Japanese man that has been there since before the war. The...
