Japan is now in a state of what Bruce Ackerman called “constitutional politics“. In past five years, the ruling coalition of PM Shinzo Abe’s LDP and Komeito has won all national elections and secured supermajority in both houses of the Diet, thus meeting the requirement of proposing amendment to the Constitution. The Prime Minister has...
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The Academic Response to the Constitutional Zone of Twilight
Japan’s postwar constitution is reaching in the zone of twilight–Tasogaredoki or Ōmagatoki in Japanese. As “Your Name “(Kimi no na wa)–the animated film that became a megahit worldwide in 2016-17–shows to us, things contradictory coexist in such moment. Constitutional order and violation. Liberal-democratic and authoritarian regime. Social equality and neo-liberal market state. Judicial activism and...