Introduced under U.S.-led occupation in the wake of World War II, Japan’s postwar constitution ... Democratic Party has advocated for rewriting the constitution. In the 1990s, political ...

But even he could not have imagined that a few months later, his young American staff would write an entirely new constitution, one that has governed Japanese affairs ever since without the change ...

Ruling party lawmakers in Japan, where lockdowns mostly entail voluntary compliance, hope the COVID-19 pandemic will build momentum to amend the post-war constitution ... in World War II, have ...