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<br> A thoroughly researched and clearly written study.... no one studying the creation of the Japanese constitution following the Pacific war can ignore this fine and analytical study, with an extensive listing of sources and a bibliography including Japanese references. We owe an immense debt to professors Moore and Robinson for enlarging our knowledge of this vital moment in both American and Japanese history. --Journal of American History<br> The most detailed and reliable book that has been written in English on the formulating process of Japan's present Constitution by two authors who are specialists in modern Japanese history and American Constitutional development. This book reveals in great detail, for the first time the drafting process of the GHQ/SCAP version based on interviews with, and the private papers of Colonel Kades, the main drafter of the Constitution. This book, from an original point of view, throws light on the present debate on Japanese Constitutional revision

A thoroughly researched and clearly written study.... no one studying the creation of the Japanese constitution following the Pacific war can ignore this fine and analytical study, with an extensive listing of sources and a bibliography including Japanese references. We owe an immense debt to professors Moore and Robinson for enlarging our knowledge of this vital moment in both American and Japanese history. --Journal of American History The most detailed and reliable book that has been written in English on the formulating process of Japan's present Constitution by two authors who are specialists in modern Japanese history and American Constitutional development. This book reveals in great detail, for the first time the drafting process of the GHQ/SCAP version based on interviews with, and the private papers of Colonel Kades, the main drafter of the Constitution. This book, from an original point of view, throws light on the present debate on Japanese Constitutional revisi

<br> A thoroughly researched and clearly written study.... no one studying the creation of the Japanese constitution following the Pacific war can ignore this fine and analytical study, with an extensive listing of sources and a bibliography including Japanese references. We owe an immense debt to professors Moore and Robinson for enlarging our knowledge of this vital moment in both American and Japanese history. --Journal of American History<p><br> The most detailed and reliable book that has been written in English on the formulating process of Japan's present Constitution by two authors who are specialists in modern Japanese history and American Constitutional development. This book reveals in great detail, for the first time the drafting process of the GHQ/SCAP version based on interviews with, and the private papers of Colonel Kades, the main drafter of the Constitution. This book, from an original point of view, throws light on the present debate on Japanese Constitutional revisi

[an] excellent book. Show[s] the sublety with which the Japanese got around awkward American proposals. --Foreign Affairs<br> A thoroughly researched and clearly written study.... no one studying the creation of the Japanese constitution following the Pacific war can ignore this fine and analytical study, with an extensive listing of sources and a bibliography including Japanese references. We owe an immense debt to professors Moore and Robinson for enlarging our knowledge of this vital moment in both American and Japanese history. --Journal of American History<br> The most detailed and reliable book that has been written in English on the formulating process of Japan's present Constitution by two authors who are specialists in modern Japanese history and American Constitutional development. This book reveals in great detail, for the first time the drafting process of the GHQ/SCAP version based on interviews with, and the private papers of Colonel Kades, the main drafter of the Constitution. This book, from an original point of view, throws light on the present debate on Japanese Constitutional revision which is the most serious political issues of the postwar period. --Shoichi Koseki Professor of Constitutional Law Dokkyo University, Japan<br> A fascinating inside story of the process of drafting a constitution that achieved widespread accepetance in Japan as the foundation of democracy . . . Highly Recommended. --Choice<br>

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Ray A. Moore is Professor of History and Asian Studies at Amherst College. Donald L. Robinson is Charles N. Clark Professor of Government and American Studies at Smith College. Together they edited The Constitution of Japan: A Documentary History of its Framing and Adoption, 1945-1947.

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