What is it about?
Focusing on the issue of revising Article 9, this article argues that the chance of reopening the constitutional debate is low under this government. There are DPJ members who support revising the constitution, but as opposed to the LDP where this opinion is more uniform, within the DPJ, members only agree on this point to varying degree. Moreover, because the DPJ is not taking a proactive stance in this issue, it's unlikely that the debate would be extensive.
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Why is it important?
The DPJ came into power after more than sixty years of uninterrupted reign by the LDP. It's not surprising, then, that analysts have made several different predictions as to how their foreign and security policy would turn out.
Perspectives
The DPJ government only ruled Japan for three years and has since dissolved. Yet the hurdles to constitutional revision pinpointed by this article through the use of elite interviews remain highly relevant.
Professor Linus Hagström
Swedish Defence University
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This page is a summary of: The Democratic Party of Japan's security policy and Japanese politics of constitutional revision: a cloud over Article 9?, Australian Journal Of International Affairs, November 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2010.513367.
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