After World War II, Japan adopted a pacifist constitution under Article 9, renouncing war and forbidding the maintenance of a ...

Japan’s constitution and the post-war identity that emerged from it was the foundation of Japan’s post-war success. Seventy-five years later, Japan faces a different world.

Of course, the Japanese have the right to amend their Constitution in any way they desire. But in the process the Abe government should give some thought to the cultural consequences of such a change.

The move signals Tokyo’s growing military self-reliance as it distances itself from US security dependence and builds ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed a reinterpretation of Japan’s postwar constitution to allow the military to use force alongside other national militaries, a right that postwar Japanese ...

While Japan’s politicians are less reticent about amending the constitution, the Japanese public remains cautious. Politicians moved ahead with parliamentary deliberations on the constitution in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s timing was impeccable: July 1 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), the de-fanged fighting force that has ...

Japan marked the 67th anniversary of its postwar constitution Saturday with growing debate over whether to revise the war-renouncing charter in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for an ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Few cities know the struggle between peace and war as well as this one. A moral debate is raging across Japan over whether the pacifist constitution American occupiers ...

Japan’s coalition government has approved a controversial reinterpretation of the nation’s pacifist constitution that will let its troops fight overseas for the first time since the Second ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s timing was impeccable: July 1 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), the de-fanged fighting force that has ...