Special Issue: A New Constitution for Japan?

Edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Takahashi Shinnosuke

March 1, 2018

Volume 16 | Issue 5

Article ID 5570

The Constitution, Human Rights and Pluralism in Japan: Alternative Visions of Constitutions Past and Future - Tessa Morris-Suzuki
We, the Japanese People: Rethinking the Meaning of the Peace Constitution - C. Douglas Lummis
Prime Minster Abe’s Constitutional Campaign and the Assault on Individual Rights - Okano Yayo
Affirmative Action Policies Under the Postwar Japanese Constitution: On the Effects of the Dōwa Special Measures Policy - Noah McCormack
Rethinking Japan’s Constitution from the Perspective of the Ainu and Ryūkyū Peoples - Uemura Hideaki and Jeffry Gayman

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor Emerita of Japanese History at the Australian National University. Her current research focuses on the history of the indigenous people of the Okhotsk Sea region, and her most recent publications include Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy (2020), On the Frontiers of History: Rethinking East Asian Borders (2020) and The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden History (edited, 2018).
tmorrissuzuki@gmail.com

Takahashi Shinnosuke

TAKAHASHI Shinnosuke is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Global Human Sciences, Kobe University. His field of expertise is modern and contemporary Japanese culture and society in regional and global contexts. Takahashi's publications include Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration and Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan 2016)