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Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State Under MacArthur

Ray A. Moore and Donald L. Robinson

Abstract

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

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2002 Print ISBN-13: 9780195151169
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 DOI:10.1093/019515116X.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Ray A. Moore, author
Amherst College

Donald L. Robinson, author
Smith College
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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Japanese Terms

Introduction: “A New Order of Things”

Fall 1945

1 “Negotiated Surrender”: American Planning and Occupation

2 “This Fundamental Problem”: MacArthur Saves Hirohito

3 “In Good Faith”: Japan Considers Constitutional Reform

4 “A Rational Way”: Konoe and Matsumoto on Constitutional Reform

Imposing the American Model

5 “Only as a Last Resort”: The Americans Take Over

6 “A Liberal and Enlightened Constitution”: The Scap Model

7 “A Very Serious Matter”: The Cabinet's Initial Reactions

8 “Do Your Best”: The Marathon Meeting

9 “Grave Danger”: The Allies Challenge MacArthur

10 “Seize This Opportunity”: Reworking the March 6 Draft

11 “No Choice But to Abide”: The Privy Council and Bureaucrats Prepare

Transforming a Draft into a Constitution

12 “Along Democratic and Peace‐Loving Lines”: Yoshida Presents His Draft

13 “Free and Untrammeled Debate”: The Emperor's Prerogatives

14 “Fervent Hopes”: Pacifism and Human Rights

15 “Complex and Labyrinthine”: The Structure of Government

16 “Fresh Trouble”: The House Subcommittee Frames Amendments

17 “Fundamental Principles of Democracy”: Human Rights and Imperial Property

18 “Sincere and Steady Efforts”: Denouement

19 “Last Service to the Fatherland”: The House of Peers Addresses Constitutional Revision

20 “A Borrowed Suit”: Peers Accept the Inevitable

Sequel

21 “Broaden and Deepen the Debate”: Fifty Years Without Revision

Conclusion

End Matter

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