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CONSTITUTION

EDITORIALS
Mar 15, 2016
Abe's drive to amend Constitution
Voters should strive to understand what government leaders and lawmakers aim to achieve by amending the supreme law.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 13, 2016
LDP voices policies in lead-up to pivotal Upper House election
Delegates at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's annual convention adopt important policy measures such as revising the Constitution and breathing new life into the moribund economic recovery.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 9, 2016
New opposition party expected to push constitutional change without prioritizing Article 9
A new opposition party to be launched March 27 through a merger between the Democratic Party of Japan and Ishin-no-To (Japan Innovation Party) will uphold constitutionalism and envisage a "future-oriented constitution" that matches with time, lawmakers of the two parties said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 8, 2016
Tokyo court rejects retrial bid over 1959 ruling that U.S. military's presence in Japan is constitutional
The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday dismissed a retrial request over a 1959 Supreme Court ruling that found the U.S. military's presence in Japan constitutional.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 1, 2016
Abe cites need for Japan to fully exercise right to collective self-defense
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggests that the Constitution should be amended to give Japan the power to fully exercise the right to collective self-defense.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Feb 29, 2016
'Landmark' ruling sent Japan's foreign residents back to welfare limbo
Widely misunderstood 2014 case reaffirmed the decades-old stopgap that means noncitizens can receive support but can't appeal if their application is rejected.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Feb 25, 2016
Supreme Court, Abe battle over judicial independence
The Supreme Court is locked in a war with the Abe administration over the independence of the judicial branch.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 18, 2016
Lawmaker draws rebuke, silence after describing Obama as 'slave descendant'
A day after calling U.S. President Barack Obama a 'descendant of black slaves,' Diet member Kazuya Maruyama is accused by the black community, if not his party, of flirting with racism.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2016
Supporters, opponents hold rallies over Constitution revision drive
Supporters and opponents of revising the Constitution, including the war-renouncing Article 9, staged rallies in Tokyo on Thursday in the wake of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to amend Japan's supreme law.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 8, 2016
Abe to use North Korea rocket launch to promote constitutional change
North Korea's launch Sunday of what it says was a satellite may increase public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's more robust security policy and promote public debate about his calls for amending the Constitution, according to some experts.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 4, 2016
Abe mulls expanded SDF role in South Sudan
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday the government is considering expanding the role of the Ground Self-Defense Force in a U.N. mission in South Sudan in line with Japan's new security legislation that will take effect in March.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 3, 2016
Abe explicit in call for amendment to Constitution's Article 9
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls for changing the war-renouncing Article 9, citing a contradiction between the SDF and a ban on armed forces.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 1, 2016
Time for Japan's academia and media to wake up
Japan's media and academia are failing in their duty to question government policies.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 29, 2016
Abe's misplaced priorities
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would be better off working on real-life problems like the stagnant economy than worrying about changing the Constitution, which has served Japan so well.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 27, 2016
Rallying to stop Abe from gutting Japan's democracy
Shinzo Abe is treading dangerously close to shutting down freedom of the press and expression, and the opposition must come together to stop his drive to alter the Constitution.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 13, 2016
Osaka Ishin no Kai vows to assist Abe's bid to amend Constitution, but won't cooperate in Upper House poll
A senior lawmaker of the opposition party Osaka Ishin no Kai expressed a willingness Tuesday to help Prime Minister Shinzo Abe build a force that can win more than two-thirds of the seats in the House of Councilors in next summer's election to initiate amendments to the Constitution.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 11, 2016
Abe's constitutional revision hopes ride on July election, right-leaning opposition cooperation
Japan's postwar pacifism will face a critical challenge this year that could drastically change the course of this country forever: the July Upper House election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 10, 2016
Abe invites Osaka Ishin tieup in quest to revise Constitution
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he is willing to work to revise the pacifist Constitution with Toru Hashimoto's opposition party Osaka Ishin no Kai.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 9, 2016
Different-names ruling leaves door open to possibility of same-sex marriages
While the Supreme Court ruling said there is nothing unconstitutional about compelling married couples to register under one name, they didn't expressly limit marriage to a man and a woman.
EDITORIALS
Jan 6, 2016
Much at stake in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appear ready to amend the Constitution if the LDP and its allies can secure a majority in the upcoming Upper House election.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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