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ARTICLE 9

EDITORIALS
Jul 3, 2015
Abe’s poor answers on security bills
The Abe administration continues to fail to satisfactorily answer the questions that dog its proposed security legislation.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 28, 2015
At last, Japan stands up
Japan no longer intends to stand on the world’s diplomatic sidelines.
EDITORIALS
Jun 25, 2015
More time won’t justify security bills
Even if the Abe government extends the Diet session to ensure passage of its security legislation, it still must pass constitutional muster to be legitimate.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2015
Japanese city in a dance over pop band that criticized ruling LDP
The municipal government in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, is retroactively withdrawing support for a public event after an all-girl pop group performed a song that criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 20, 2015
In search of Japanese and American shared values
There is a good deal of blather about the shared values that are ostensibly the foundation of the alliance between Japan and the United States. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama invoked this mantra when they met in Washington to finalize new Japan-U.S. defense guidelines that hardly...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 15, 2015
Will Japan repeat past errors?
A repetition of events in the 1930s is inconceivable but there is much about politics in Tokyo to cause alarm.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 12, 2015
Media should stop legitimizing Abe’s Article 9 ‘reinterpretation’
The media should stop giving the Abe administration’s ‘reinterpretation’ of Article 9 a legitimacy and validity that it does not enjoy under Japan’s constitutional system.
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2015
Abe lays out scenarios for SDF dispatch if security bills pass
If contentious security reform bills are enacted by the Diet, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japanese forces could hypothetically be dispatched to mine-sweeping operations in the Strait of Hormuz.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 27, 2015
Should Japanese liberals support revising Article 9?
Rather than leave the interpretation of Article 9 to each administration, perhaps it should be revised so government policies could be placed under the potential constraints of judicial review.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
May 16, 2015
MacArthur’s JapaneseConstitution
The Constitution is one of the more controversial documents of our age. Some want it rewritten, some hold it as an inviolable sacred text. Article 9 — the article renouncing war — has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants it abolished. Yet for all the column inches...
EDITORIALS
May 15, 2015
Defense bills remain problematic
The Abe administration’s legislative package to expand the SDF’s role finally reaches the Diet — but still remains poorly explained.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 9, 2015
It’s all fun and games until war breaks out
Not far from where I live is a kind of amusement park where you can play soldier. It has a lot of chain-link fences and gray structures that look like bombed-out buildings. On weekends, men, and sometimes women, dressed in camouflage and armed with replica air rifles, re-enact the kind of military operations...
EDITORIALS
May 8, 2015
Honor the current Constitution
Amid the current effort to rewrite the Constitution, Japan should remember how well it has served the nation these past seven decades.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 8, 2015
We need to talk about Abe
Shinzo Abe is bent on making Japan a ‘normal’ country, but has he thought out the consequences of elevating the SDF to a full-fledged military?
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 3, 2015
Activists battle to justify, denounce Constitution
As the conservative LDP forges ahead with its bid to revise the national charter, activists rally on Constitution Day to press both sides of the debate.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 28, 2015
LDP aims to revise Constitution by 2017
A key member of the Liberal Democratic Party said Tuesday he wants the party to achieve its long-held goal of revising the Constitution within the next two years, arguing the 68-year-old charter should be updated to adapt to a changing domestic and international environment.
EDITORIALS
Apr 3, 2015
Keep a close eye on Abe’s words
Given Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s moves to undermine cherished constitutional principles, citizens must pay close attention to his words.
EDITORIALS
Mar 25, 2015
Broadening SDF missions abroad
An outline of a package of security legislation planned by the Abe administration fails to set clear restrictions on the scope of the Self-Defense Forces’ overseas missions.
EDITORIALS
Mar 13, 2015
Amending for amendment’s sake?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party are moving to put amendment of the Constitution at the forefront of their agenda, with specific timetables already discussed for revising text that has remained unchanged since it took effect in 1947.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 10, 2015
Abe’s new policy on foreign aid risks playing with fire
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is playing with fire in declaring that Japan may give non-lethal assistance to foreign military forces.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Why is the yen so weak and what can Japan do about it?
Japan spent ¥11.7 trillion ($73 billion) between late April and late May to prop up the weak yen.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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