Constitution Day also brought out defenders of the nation ... Yukio Edano, head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said there was no need for a new state of emergency clause ...

“It is more important than ever to further heighten momentum toward constitutional revision,” Kishida said in the message on May 3, Japan’s Constitution Day. “A stance for revising parts ...

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 ...

Staff member Beate Sirota Gordon, then in her early twenties, still remembers the day well ... and its presence in the constitution has had an enormous impact on Japan's postwar history.

Japan's constitution defines marriage as one between "both sexes". But a Sapporo court ruled that this denied the couples constitutionally-guaranteed equality, in what is seen as a symbolic ...