| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 409 pages) : illustrations, portraits, 8 pages of plates |
| Contents |
Fall 1945 -- "Negotiated Surrender": American Planning and Occupation -- "This Fundamental Problem": MacArthur Saves Hirohito -- "In Good Faith": Japan Considers Constitutional Reform -- "A Rational Way": Konoe and Matsumoto on Constitutional Reform -- Imposing the American Model -- "Only as a Last Resort": The Americans Take Over -- "A Liberal and Enlightened Constitution": The SCAP Model -- "A Very Serious Matter": The Cabinet's Initial Reactions -- "Do Your Best": The Marathon Meeting -- "Grave Danger": The Allies Challenge MacArthur -- "Seize This Opportunity": Reworking the March 6 Draft -- "No Choice But to Abide": The Privy Council and Bureaucrats Prepare -- Transforming a Draft into a Constitution -- Preview: The Diet Goes to Work -- "Along Democratic and Peace-Loving Lines": Yoshida Presents His Draft -- "Free and Untrammeled Debate": The Emperor's Prerogatives -- "Fervent Hopes": Pacifism and Human Rights -- "Complex and Labyrinthine": The Structure of Government -- "Fresh Trouble": The House Subcommittee Frames Amendments -- "Fundamental Principles of Democracy": Human Rights and Imperial Property -- "Sincere and Steady Efforts": Denouement -- "Last Service to the Fatherland": The House of Peers Addresses Constitutional Revision -- "A Borrowed Suit": Peers Accept the Inevitable -- Sequel -- "Broaden and Deepen the Debate": Fifty Years without Revision |
| Summary |
In 1945 Emperor Hirohito signed Japan's unconditional surrender to the United States and its allies. Tackling a timely subject, this work takes the controversial stand that the constitution of Japan was not imposed as a document of defeat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-391) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
MacArthur, Douglas. swd |
| Subject |
Japan. Kenpō (1946)
|
| SUBJECT |
Kenpō (Japan : 1946) fast |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- Japan
|
|
LAW -- Constitutional.
|
|
LAW -- Public.
|
|
Constitutional history
|
|
Demokratisierung
|
|
Besetzung
|
|
Besatzungspolitik
|
|
Grondwetten.
|
|
Geschichte 1945-1951.
|
|
Geschichte 1945-1946.
|
| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069508
|
| Subject |
Japan
|
|
Japan
|
|
USA
|
|
Japan -- Verfassung (1947)
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Robinson, Donald L., 1936-
|
|
Oxford University Press
|
| ISBN |
019515116X |
|
9780195151169 |
|
9780199833917 |
|
0199833915 |
|
