GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON JAPAN No.6

Description

Editor’s Note, Erdal K. Yalcin

Abstracts

Articles

Narrative Development across Cultural and Historical Contexts: A Case Study of the Asian Versions of The Homecoming Husband, Saida Khalmirzaeva
Japanese Sōtō Zen Monastery as a Worldly Institution, Merve Susuz Aygül
Strengthening Germany-Japan Security Cooperation: An Examination of the Trends, Reasons, and Challenges, Weijing Xing
An Elite Analysis: Reimagining LDP’s Factions, 1955-1993, Yalın Akçevin

Selected Abbreviated Translations

International Comparison of Constitutional Reform Processes in Terms of the Requirements of Indirect and Direct Democracy, Takashi Kitamura
The Image of “the State” Seen in Japanese Historical Novels: From Nation-state to a New Public Order Like The EU, Inoue Noriyuki
Current Status and Issues of Basic Education Guarantee in Japan under the Corona Crisis, Makiko Shinya & Yohei Tanada
Cognitive Linguistics and Japanese-Language Education: How to deal with cross-cultural conflict?, Michiyo Moriya
From The Perspective of Language Simplification Easy Japanese and Sign Language News, Matsumoto Miho

Constitutional Amendment Debates in Japan

Public Opinion on Constitutional Amendment in Postwar Japan: An Analysis of a “Pooling the Polls” Method, Hirofumi Miwa & Shiro Sakaiya
A Study on the Civilian Control concerning the Constitution of Japan, Article 66th Paragraph 2, Isaku Shibata
Democracy and Constitutional Amendment regarding the Constitution of Japan, Ryosuke Yamada
The Process of Making “Draft of Constitutional Revisions by Hisatada HIROSE”: The Note of Arguments
About Constitutional Revisions, Keisuke Arakuni
On Liberal Democratic Party’s Draft Revision of Japanese Constitution, Shigeaki Iijima
Problems of the Bill for a Referendum on the Amendment of the Constitution of Japan, Shigeaki İijima
Memorandum on the Referendum Law for the Constitutional Amendments: From the Perspective of the
People’s Freedom of Speech on the Right to Know, Hiroyuki Ota
The Making of the Amendment Clause in the Japanese Constitution of Japan – Formation on Process of
the MacArthur Draft and its Background, Masatoshi Takahashi
Significance of Unwritten Constitution in England and Japan: As Help of Consideration of the Problem of Amendment to the Japanese Constitution, Yoshimine Komori
Comments on the Chapter 1 “The Emperor” of the Draft for the Amandmend of the Constitution of Japan
by the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan: In Contrast to the Current Constitution, Toru Enoki
A Short Bibliography on Recent Scholarship, Hiroto Naiki

Book Review: Late Ottoman Istanbul Theater from a Japanese Perspective by Yuzo Nagata and Hikari
Egawa, Selçuk Esenbel