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Defining Japan’s Postwar Constitution

What is it about?

By taking contentions in Japanese postwar Constitution into account, this study will explores the way in which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe challenged and was able to change the country’s rule of rules in defining political reality within the just war framework.

Why is it important?

The findings of this study show the way in which Abe made the strategic use of the moral strictures underlying the Judeo-Christian tradition of jus ad bellum thinking in order to justify Japan’s exercise of the right of collective self-defense by introducing the three conditions. As its result, Abe succeeded in reinterpreting the peace constitution, but failed to persuade the country.

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Hiroko Okuda and Takeshi Suzuki
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