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This book demonstrates that Japan's postwar Constitution has provided a solid foundation for democracy because, contrary to the conventional view that the American Occupation simply “imposed” it, there was considerable Japanese input in its making.
Keywords: cabinet commissions, constitutional revision, Diet debates, Emperor Hirohito, House of Representatives, Douglas MacArthur, Moscow Agreement, Potsdam Declaration, SCAP draft, Yoshida Shigeru
Print publication date: 2002 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195151169 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/019515116X.001.0001 |
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