A two-thirds majority is required in each house to begin the process of amending Japan’s constitution. And amending the constitution is one of the central planks in the LDP’s platform.

For over seventy years, Japan’s constitution has remained untouched, a symbol of a reformed nation and a democratic society. Introduced under U.S.-led occupation in the wake of World War II ...

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 ...

The oligarchs’ intention was to create a government based on a written constitution and headed by a monarch, in this case Japan’s hereditary emperor. Their intention was not to create a representative ...

The court's ruling is the fifth decision to call Japan's same-sex marriage ban a violation of the country's constitution following similar rulings in the high courts of Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka and ...

Around 52 percent of voters said Japan’s postwar Constitution is “good,” down from 58 percent last year, while another 52 percent said revisions are needed, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey.

Under the constitution of Imperial Japan, which was in force from 1890 to 1947, State Shinto was effectively the state religion, and government agencies such as the Army Ministry determined the ...