[This is a guest post written by Naritada Miura, a Student Assistant in the Prange Collection. This is the last post of the series of Constitution of Japan.  See Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV, and Part V] Reference For my final blog post, as this series mainly cited  “Zukai Kenpo” and “Charles L. […]

[This is a guest post written by Naritada Miura, a Student Assistant in the Prange Collection. This is the fifth post of the series of Constitution of Japan.  See Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV] Article 7 For this blog post, we will explore the trivial element of the constitution. A constitutional scholar […]

[This is a guest post written by Naritada Miura, a Student Assistant in the Prange Collection. This is the fourth post of the series of Constitution of Japan.  See Part I, Part II, and Part III] Article 9 This is the most controversial topic, the Article 9. Note, this blog post is not meant to […]

[This is a guest post written by Naritada Miura, a Student Assistant in the Prange Collection. This is the third post of the series of Constitution of Japan.  See Part I and Part II] Article 1 Very soon, Emperor Akihito will abdicate his throne, which will be the start of the Reiwa period. Many of […]

[This is a guest post written by Naritada Miura, a Student Assistant in Special Collections & University Archives, who works primarily in the Prange Collection.] Introduction Below is the Imperial Rescript declared on January 1st, 1946 by Emperor Hirohito, in which he gives words of encouragement to the Japanese people as they reconstruct the nation. […]