A Pacifist Constitution for an Armed Empire.

Acknowledgements
Giovanna Mazzocchi, Presentation
Carlo Filippini, Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1
Japan Surrenders
(General Douglas MacArthur Takes Over; Ignoring Orders from Washington; Emperor-Sponsored Surrender; Revolution from Above; Turning Human, Courtesy of the US; But Ready for Democracy?; Too Easy?)
Falsifying History and Keeping The Emperor
(Lying with and for the Emperor; The Emperor and Pearl Harbour-Economical with the Truth; The Emperor-MacArthur Axis of Cynics; The MacArthur-Emperor Meetings)
Reforming Japan
(A 'Holy' Mission; Adopting Reforms; MacArthur's Blunder)
The Men with a Plan (Long in Advance)
(Not Provoking the Enemy; Preventing Surprises)
Japan is Trying to Draft a Constitution - 'The Matsumoto Draft'
(Not (Really) Interested in Revision; Revision without Revising; Not Checking with the Boss; The Draft Goes Public; MacArthur's Turn; The One Week Constitution; 'Far Eastern Commission' ('FEC') not in Charge, MacArthur Says; Shocking Japan; Matsumoto Still Didn't Get it; The Emperor's OK; No Bad News Allowed; 'Guided Democracy'; Supervising Freedom of Expression; The Orders from a Disempowered Emperor; Bypassing Washington and the 'FEC', Again; Yoshida Falling in Line; 'Imperial Democracy'; The Parliament's OK; The Peoples' Ideas; Promulgating the Constitution; The Japanese Emperor-from Head to Symbol of the State; An 'Alien Import')
Codifying Japanese Pacifism - Article 9
(Article 9 and the 'Ashida Amendment'; Copyright Controversies; The 'FEC' Wants a Word; Flip-Flopping and U-Turning on Article 9; The Constitution and Japan's 'Kokutai'; A Role Model, it was Hoped; Article 9, Armed Forces, the Cabinet Legislation Bureau and Collective Self-Defence; Genuine Support or Bandwagoning?; Article 9 and the Japanese Supreme Court)
Shifting US Priorities and Beginning of The Early End of Japanese Pacifism
(Leaving the Fighting up to the US-The Yoshida Doctrine; Japan's Re-armament; Revision of the 'US-Japan Security Treaty')
Revising the Revised Constitution
(The 'LDP'-'Conservative Pragmatists' Versus 'Conservative Revisionists'; Come in the Revisionists-in-Chief: Nobusuke Kishi and Yasuhiro Nakasone; Ideological Counterparts and Constitutional Revision; Constitutional Revision in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s; Re-Activating Revisionism-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi; 'Normal Nationalists'; Newspaper-Sponsored Revisionism; Alternative Proposals; Taking Revision to the Parliament; Not A Big Deal, After All; The 'National Referendum Law' (2007); Unaware of the Consequences; The 'Hollowing-Out' of Article 9; Nuclear Armament Despite Article 9?; Article 9 and Collective Self-Defence Today; The Survival of Article 9; Constitutional Revision and the 'DPJ')
Conclusions Part 1
Part 2
Non-Pacifist Defence and Security Policies of a Pacifist Country
(More or Less 'Normal' Country; Drivers; Exploiting Real and Imaginary Threats; Japan's China Problem)
Japanese Defence and Security Policies in the 1990s
(Japan's Gulf War Trauma; Japan Must Become 'Normal'!; Japan's Peacekeeping Law)
The Koizumi Defence and Security Policy Years
(Seizing the Moment to Defend Japanese Territory; Japan, Koizumi and September 11, 2001; Japan's Navy in the Indian Ocean and the 'Anti-Terrorism Law'; The Mission in Iraq (2004-2006); Legal Shortcomings; The Indian Ocean, Iraq and the Gulf of Aden-Farewell to Pacifism for Good?)
Tokyo's Defence and Security Policies Today
(Japan's Anti-Piracy Mission in the Gulf of Aden (2009-); Japan in Afghanistan Today; Upgrading Japan's Military Capabilities; US-Japan Missile Defence; Upgrading Japan's Coast Guard (JGC); Reconnaissance Satellites; Japan's 'Nuclear Option'; The US-Japan Security Alliance and the Futenma Base Controversy)
Japan's Trouble with North Korea
(The 'Abduction Issue'; Pressure from the Inside; Temporary Rapprochement; A Convenient Catch-All Threat; But Really a Threat?; Japan, North Korea and the 'Six-Party Talks'; Blaming Japan; Japanese Sanctions; Lack Economic Diplomacy; Japanese-Chinese Rivalry; US-Japan Friction over North Korea; Bleak Prospects)
'The National Defence Programme Guidelines' ('NDPG') (December 2010)
('Dynamic' Armed Forces; Re-locating and Re-structuring Troops and Firepower; Scarce Funds; Drivers and Targets; Contributions to Regional and Global Security; Legal Base with Expiry Date; Not Revising Japan's 'Non-Nuclear Principles' (Yet); China Worries; One-dimensional Security and Defence Policies?; Not Lifting the Weapons Export Ban in December 2010; Lifting it in December 2011; Not Touching Article 9, Not Authorizing Collective Self-Defence; The Defence Guidelines and Japanese-Chinese Disputes in the East China Sea)
Conclusions
Bibliography
Annex
List of names.

Contributi: Carlo Filippini, Giovanna Mazzocchi

Collana: Collana storica del centro studi per i popoli extraeuropei dell'Universita' di Pavia

Argomenti: Storia politica e diplomatica

Livello: Studi, ricerche