A large majority of Komeito candidates in the Lower House election support revisions to the Constitution, but they have different priorities from their coalition counterparts in the ruling Liberal ...

The conditions for initiating an amendment and conducting a national referendum have not been met. In the 2021 revision of ...

For most of the last seventy years, Japan’s political parties have been at odds over the constitution, making revision impossible. The conservatives in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have ...

The constitutional revision process begins in Parliament today amid heightened political confrontation, with the government pushing the changes through fast-track procedures.

An evolving geopolitical landscape pushing Japan into untested waters, a prime minister who has long championed constitutional revision, and pro-revision opposition parties having a direct impact on ...

It’s a legislative-style body that meets every two decades to propose changes to the state constitution. The CRC is made up of 37 appointees selected by the governor, House speaker, senate president ...

This blog post is co-authored with Ayumi Teraoka, research associate for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is part of a series entitled Will the Japanese Change Their Constitution?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are three proposed amendments to the state constitution on the ballot this November. Two have to do with property taxes and ...