From pandemic management to relations with its neighbors, Japan faces persistent challenges from the mistakes and unfinished business of the postwar Allied occupation.
Constitutional revision would mean waking up, when the Japanese put under a spell by the American Occupation still prefer to slumber in their defeat.
South Korea and Austria share many historical experiences in common, but the outcomes have been very different, and Moon Jae In missed a chance to understand...
Drafted on the assumption of Western superiority, the postwar Japanese constitution is not an artifact of Japanese political will or self-determination, but a monument to what...
PM Yoshihide Suga details how the 74-year-old Occupation era constitution impedes the country’s response to modern problems, including the COVID-19 emergency, and how he plans to...
First of Two Parts (Read Part Two here) The current fight against the novel coronavirus is only the latest in a series of...
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