Japan's Pseudo-Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781873410073 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 280 str.

Peter J. Herzog

Opis

Japan's legal and political system is completely alien to its history and culture, imposed on the Japanese people without their involvement after the Second World War. A lifeless and little-understood document based on a foreign value system, it has been open to dangerous misinterpretation and abuse.

Rocked by scandals and accusations that crucial decisions are made by non-elected officials, Japan has been called a democracy in name only. Is it?

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 How democratic is Japan's constitution?; Chapter 3 The political role of the Judiciary; Chapter 4 Human Rights; Chapter 5 Minorities; Chapter 6 Freedom of Religion; Chapter 7 Japan's Election System: An Unequal Equation; Chapter 8 Scandals; Chapter 9 Education in Japan; Chapter 10 Rearmament and the Interpretation of Article 9; Chapter 11 The Courts and the Judicial Ethos; Chapter 12 Epilogue;

O autorze

Peter J. Herzog