Episode 185 - Lifting the Lost, Part 3

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week: where did Japan's constitution come from, and how the hell did it get done in only six days?

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1:20.5	So if you're going to build a new Japan, the first thing you need is a blueprint, a fundamental guide upon which later decisions will be based,
1:28.6	and upon which the future of the country can be established.
1:32.6	In other words, you need a constitution.
1:36.4	Today is the story of Japan's 1947 constitution, commonly called the Shoah constitution,
1:43.0	since it's from the period of the reign of Emperor
1:45.4	Shoah, aka Hirohito.
1:48.3	This distinguishes it from the old Meiji Constitution from 1889.
1:55.2	Very early in the planning by the State War Navy Coordinating Committee, or Swink, it was decided that the old
2:02.0	Constitution had to go. The Meiji Constitution was fundamentally an authoritarian document.
2:09.2	It heavily circumscribed both the powers of elected assemblies and the individual rights
2:14.5	enjoyed by Japanese subjects, not, by the way, Japanese citizens.
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