Japanese experts urged greater public scrutiny of the country's rising defense spending and large-scale military buildup, ...

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There’s the America of its postwar Constitution and of military forces ... a process that accelerated after 1868, when Emperor Meiji announced that “knowledge should be sought throughout ...

Taking advantage of Japan's pacifist constitution. The revisionists are busy pretending ... of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands concluded between Japan and Russia in 1875 (Meiji 8)? Historical ...

Instead, just like their Meiji-era predecessors ... In 2014, Japan’s government reinterpreted the country’s pacifist constitution to allow for “collective self-defense” – providing ...

The government expert panel emphasizes that they “had the right to the imperial throne” under the contemporary legal framework because the current Constitution ... to Emperor Meiji and Emperor ...

Constitution Memorial Day (憲法記念日 ... which was also Emperor Meiji’s birthday. He didn’t like that May 3 was also the start of trials by the International Military Tribunal for ...

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which was also Emperor Meiji’s birthday. He didn’t like that May 3 was also the start of trials by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Nevertheless, he didn’t get his way.