“It is more important than ever to further heighten momentum toward constitutional revision,” Kishida said in the message on May 3, Japan’s Constitution Day. “A stance for revising parts ...

The figure last year was 32 percent. The results of the survey were released on May 3, which is Constitution Day in Japan. Simple comparisons cannot be made because the survey in 2017 started to ...

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 ...

Staff member Beate Sirota Gordon, then in her early twenties, still remembers the day well ... and its presence in the constitution has had an enormous impact on Japan's postwar history.

As voters across Japan prepare to head to the polls for an Upper House election, a decades-old discussion is surfacing as a ballot-box issue. The country's current Constitution has not been ...