Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed a reinterpretation of Japan’s postwar constitution to allow the military to use force alongside other national militaries, a right that postwar Japanese leaders ...

Hundreds of people march vowing to protect the constitution in Tokyo, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Japan marked the 67th anniversary of its postwar constitution Saturday with growing debate over whether to ...

A fundamental change came in December 2022 when former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government adopted a security strategy ...

This blog post is part of a series entitled Will Japanese Change Their Constitution? on Council on Foreign Relation's Asia Unbound, in which leading experts discuss the prospects for revising Japan’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — A recent remark by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that America wrote Japan’s Constitution is raising some eyebrows in Japan. A popular front-page column in the national Asahi newspaper ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? The Japanese Constitution turned 68 this month. A constitution is a set of rules decided upon by the people of a nation in order to protect ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This blog post is the first in a series entitled Will the Japanese Change Their ...