Corrosive erosion: mounting threats to Japan's constitutional Utopia

Abstract

From a forced renunciation in 1946 of war as a tool of international relations, Japan progressed during the next 58 years – first pushed by a former enemy, then entrained by world events and a renewed emergence of nationalism at home – to de facto repudiation of a position of studied neutrality. Armed Japanese troops are today once again present in a theatre of war.

Citation

Richardson, J. (2004), "Corrosive erosion: mounting threats to Japan's constitutional Utopia", Foresight, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 186-190. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636680410547771