Corrosive erosion: mounting threats to Japan's constitutional Utopia

Author: Jacques Richardson

Source: Foresight - The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy, Volume 6, Number 3, 2004 , pp. 186-190(5)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Abstract:

From a forced renunciation in 1946 of war as a tool of international relations, Japan progressed during the next 58 years - first pushed by a former enemy, then entrained by world events and a renewed emergence of nationalism at home - to de facto repudiation of a position of studied neutrality. Armed Japanese troops are today once again present in a theatre of war.

Keywords: Constitutional Law; Legislation; War; Peace; Social Responsibility

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14636680410547771

Publication date: 2004-03-01