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Revising Japan's Constitution

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Revising Japan's Constitution

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Japan Society NYC

1 Views • Jul 07, 2009

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Professor Helen Hardacre discusses the factors leading up to the publication of a new draft of the Japanese constitution by the moderate-to-conservative Yomiuri Newspaper, a watershed event that broke through foregoing taboos on discussion of constitutional revision. Professor Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society in the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.