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Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan's constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists' ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas.
Contents
Part I: Activism and Constitutional Politics
Chapter 1: Article 9 Meets Civic Activism: Reflection on the Sunagawa Case
Chapter 2: Crisis of Constitutional Democracy and the New Civic Activism in Japan: From SEALDs to Civil Alliance
Chapter 3: Popular Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Money: The Political Process in 1960 and 2014 Surrounding National Security
Chapter 4: Regarding Constitutional Revision Within and Without the National Diet
Chapter 5: Reflections on Part I
Part II: Activists for and Against Constitutional Revision, edited by Helen Hardacre
Chapter 6: New Civic Activism and Constitutional Discussion: Streets, Shrines and Cyberspace
Chapter 7: Reviving Constitutional Democracy: Gender Parity and Women's Engagement with Politics
Chapter 8: Soka Gakkai's Impact on Constitutional Revision Attempts
Chapter 9: Nippon Kaigi Working for Constitutional Revision
Chapter 10: Reflections on Part II
Part III: Understanding Japanese Constitutional Revision in Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Franziska Seraphim
Chapter 11: Interactions between Constitutionalism and Authoritarianism in Asian Democracies: A Japan-Taiwan Comparison
Chapter 12: Peace, Land, and Bread: Constitutional Revolution in Postwar Japan and South Korea
Chapter 13: Constitutional Revision Going Astray: Article Nine and Security Policy
Chapter 14: Reflections on Part III
Part IV: Human Rights and Environmental Issues Implicated in Constitutional Revision Debates, edited by Timothy George
Chapter 15: Wartime Roots of Postwar Pacifism: Japanese Anti-War Activism in Occupied China
Chapter 16: The Irony of an Historic Preservation Movement and Its Relevance for Popular Sovereignty in Postwar Japan
Chapter 17: Everything's Going to be Alright? An Analysis of Rights in Constitutional Amendment Proposals
Chapter 18: Reflections on Part IV
