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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...