MacArthur's Japanese Constitution : a linguistic and cultural study of its making / Kyoko Inoue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inoue, Kyoko, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law.

Japan.

Constitutional law--Japan.

Constitutional law--Japan--Cultural aspects.

Constitutional law--Translating--Japan.

Constitutional history--Japan.

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

xii, 378 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1991]

Summary:

The Japanese constitution as revised by General MacArthur in 1946, while generally regarded to be an outstanding basis for a liberal democracy, is at the same time widely considered to be--in its Japanese form--an document which is alien and incompatible with Japanese culture. Using both linguistics and historical data, Kyoto Inoue argues that despite the inclusion of alien concepts and ideas, this constitution is nonetheless fundamentally a Japanese document that can stand on its own. "This is an important book. . . . This is the most significant work on postwar Japanese constitutional history to appear in the West. It is highly instructive about the century-long process of cultural conflict in the evolution of government and society in modern Japan."--Thomas W. Burkman, "Monumenta Nipponica

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226383911

OCLC:

21761364