Transcending Law: The Unintended Life of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution

by Kenneth L. Port

Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution has engendered scholarship in Japanese and English as well as in other languages. It turns out that there are two versions of Article 9: the English version that purports to prevent Japan from rearming and insists on Japanese pacifism, and the Japanese version that is less absolute and imprecise. Japan has the fourth largest military in the world by dollars spent. This is called the "great contradiction." For...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594607494
• ISBN13: 9781594607493
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.