The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Translator's Preface and Acknowledgments viii
• A Note on the Translation ix
• Preface to the English Edition x
• Introduction: Seeking a New Perspective 1
• Notes 5
• 1 - The Probing Begins 7
• Notes 23
• 2 - Restoration of the People's Rights Ideology 26
• Notes 48
• 3 - Captive Legal Scholars: The Committee to Study Constitutional Problems 50
• Notes 66
• 4 - A Week in a Secret Room: Writing the Scap Draft 68
• Notes 94
• 5 - A Second Defeat Imposed" on Japan?" 98

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Translator's Preface and Acknowledgments viii
• A Note on the Translation ix
• Preface to the English Edition x
• Introduction: Seeking a New Perspective 1
• Notes 5
• 1 - The Probing Begins 7
• Notes 23
• 2 - Restoration of the People's Rights Ideology 26
• Notes 48
• 3 - Captive Legal Scholars: The Committee to Study Constitutional Problems 50
• Notes 66
• 4 - A Week in a Secret Room: Writing the Scap Draft 68
• Notes 94
• 5 - A Second Defeat Imposed" on Japan?" 98
• Notes 109
• 6 - The Struggle to Japanize the American Draft 111
• Notes 137
• 7 - Macarthur Against the Storm 141
• Notes 161
• 8 - The Draft Constitution in the Last Imperial Diet 165
• Notes 188
• 9 - Behind the Ashida Amendment" of Article 9" 192
• Notes 208
• 10 - Blooming Brightly in May: Popularizers of the Constitution 212
• Notes 226
• 11 - Yoshida Shigeru's Counterattack 228
• Notes 240
• 12 - The Forgotten Sequel 243
• Notes 255
• About the Book and Author 259