For over seventy years, Japan’s constitution has remained untouched, a symbol of a reformed nation and a democratic society. Introduced under U.S.-led occupation in the wake of World War II ...

But even he could not have imagined that a few months later, his young American staff would write an entirely new constitution, one that has governed Japanese affairs ever since without the change ...

It is unacceptable for Japan to allow this serious problem, created by constitutional holes, to remain unaddressed. The title of Chapter 3 of the Constitution, which defines the basic human rights ...

A court in Japan has ruled that the disparity of up to 2.06 times in the value of one vote in the Lower House election last ...

Around 52 percent of voters said Japan’s postwar Constitution is “good,” down from 58 percent last year, while another 52 percent said revisions are needed, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey.

It was in that spirit that I wanted Japan’s leaders to revise the constitution which the Americans had imposed on them and so finally take her place among the mighty nations arrayed under the ...

For most of the last seventy years, Japan’s political parties have been at odds over the constitution, making revision impossible. The conservatives in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ...

A Japanese high court ruled Thursday that the disparity in the weight of votes of up to 2.06-fold in the House of Representa ...

The plaintiffs had argued that Japan's civil law violates the Constitution by failing to recognize same-sex marriage. They said the Constitution stipulates freedom of marriage as well as equality ...