Japanese Constitution Summary

The right of all citizens of the United States to vote would not be denied by the United States Government or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article. (Weatherford 245)

The prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment largely concerns itself with disproportionate and arbitrary punishments imposed by the government. “The Court has repeatedly emphasized the Eighth Amendment’s expansive and vital character and its capacity for evolutionary growth.” (Kanovitz, 2010) Cruelty is interpreted as actions that oppose current standards of decency. As public opinion grows and changes these standards are apt to change. The vague wording of the Eighth Amendment allows room for the opinion of what punishments are acceptable to adapt to modern times.

Prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870.

While World War II had been ongoing since 1939, Japan had been fighting for the Axis powers, against the United States. In 1941, when Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States government had assumed the viewpoint that the Japanese were not to be trusted, and that the Japanese-American citizens of the United States were much the same. As such, they had resorted to establishing internment camps, or preventive labor prisons, so as to keep them in check and ostensibly to prevent further Japanese sabotage. However, the government’s actions were not fully justified, as several factors had interplayed into the circumstances that directly contradicted the intentions and visible results of the internment of the Japanese-Americans, in the social, political, economical, and cultural aspects. On the whole, the internment camps served as drastic measures which were not wholly without reasoning; contrarily, those factors in support of the internment camps did not override those which had gone against it, since the United States’ own legislation, in the form of the Constitution and other laws, had explicitly prevented the depriving of human rights, privileges, and pursuits, which had doubtless applied in light of the Japanese-Americans’ universal citizenship along the Pacific Coast in the early 1940s. As such, while the internment camps were not completely unjustified and without purpose from the viewpoint of the government, they did not align with standards of law and

The topic I choose to right about is the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. The question that I intend to answer today is: The Constitution guarantees American citizens no imprisonment without due process of law, yet has been violated by the federal government in at least two American wars. How did the government justify interning Japanese-American citizens in World War II? In order to understand why this happened we have to first look at what happened. We are going to look at a couple things in this paper: The Executive Order of 9066 and Korematsu v. United States (1944). As well as we are good to look at just why the U.S. decided to not give these people the basic

Amendment 15 allows them to vote (however they had many obstacles making it hard for them to vote)

In his work “Right to Kill, Right to Make Live” Takashi Fujitani compares and contrasts the Japanese treatment of colonialized Koreans leading up to World War II with the American treatment of the Japanese residents following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This work highlights how both the Japanese and the Americans treated the Koreans and Japanese Americans, respectively, and offers several different viewpoints. Thus, this work is exceptionally important and provides incredible insight into both cultures and the harsh reality of wartime. Additionally, Fujitani also explains how the Korean and Japanese populations are still influenced today.

One common aspect across the three personalities is the degradation of the power of the rule by the elite. All three agree that there is no good democracy that comes from a select group. Not only because it is the elite in Japan, but it is those in power who are the problem. In Japan, a majority of the House of Chancellors are passed down through bloodline or company relation. We cannot be certain that those individuals are trained and knowledgeable in the problems in the political view. However, this also brings up the concern of public awareness of political issues. Today, according to Ikeda, Kohno, and Yamada’s studies on citizen understanding political concepts between 1960-1990, many Japanese citizens feel that they had no say in political decision making and that they were not well educated in the policies and issues being discussed. As we discussed in class, this is a common problem amongst democracy as a whole, not having a well educated, well informed general public voting. Finally, the aspect of religious liberty brought within the political spectrum. Although this contradicts John Locke’s beliefs of keeping the politic and religious spheres separate, this unity of religion ties together an ideal form of democracy for all three individuals. It is through applying Buddhist values into Japanese government that would provide a sense of patriotism through

For the following essay, I will be describing the history of the Postwar Constitution of Japan written by General Douglas MacArthur and his staff in 1946 after the Allies’ victory in World War II. Rights such as freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought, as well as respect for the fundamental human rights shall be established under Section 10 were one of many that was included in the document. In addition, the document stated: as per the text written under Section 12, "the occupying forces of the Allies shall be withdrawn from Japan as soon as these objectives have been accomplished and there has been established in accordance with the freely expressed will of the Japanese people a peacefully inclined and responsible government".

The ninth article of Japan’s forced constitution causes major conflicts that damage Japan’s Self Defense Force and its ability to aid its allies. The vague wording of the article questions the legitimacy of the Self Defense Force, and has been one of the biggest controversial subjects in Japan for decades. Many groups want to change the law, while others want to pass new laws to specify the boundaries of the 9th Article.

respect to religion: the right to be free from government-imposed religion and a right to practice

The end of the Second World War with the surrender of Japan had many numerous reasons, also with the most basically reason was two bombing of USA on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Therefore, Japan marks the defeat of its short-lived imperial expansionist policy, and symbolize the establishment of the new constitution called” pacifist”, which limits the nature of Japanese military activity largely to defense against external attacks on Japan. However, this post-war pride pacifist constitution which has not been revised since it promulgation in 1946 has been recently harmed by the Japan Prime Minister and his ruling party whose plan was to shift it. Mr. Abe and his party is preparing to propose a constitutional amendment to the Diet after the summer

When SCAP drafted our constitution, I could not wait any seconds to read it. The constitution you created was so different from our former “Meiji Constitution”. Life under the “Meiji Constitution” was very brutal and hard, especially for a woman like me. We were not allowed to speak or act against the war effort. If we ever do, we would have been killed or punished by the military regime. So I had to watch what I had to say and think. When I found out about the new constitution, we were pleased to find the rights and liberties bestowed upon us.

Traditionally, Japan has been maintaining a close relationship with East Asian countries geographically close , the West , including diplomatic and blisters all over the world since the Meiji Restoration. There Japan has established a friendly relationship with countries around the world and is currently Japan 's most important diplomacy and an ally of the United States (see the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ). According to the signed treaty after World War II Japan has stationed troops and by 2006 the United States was the largest trading partner of Japan. But the Cabinet and after the US-Japan relationship is going Toyama various friction

I know that it is in the eighth amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, and I can’t think of a greater punishment for a crime than death, but I believe that exceptions should be made.