Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas.

Contributions by: Weitseng Chen, Erik Esselstrom, Timothy S. George, Helen Hardacre, Saburo Horikawa, Sung Ho Kim, Keigo Komamura, Rintaro Kuramochi, Levi McLaughlin, Mari Miura, Koichi Nakano, Franziska Seraphim, Yoshihide Soeya, Makiko Ueda, Christian Winkler, Tatsuhiko Yamamoto