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The fundamental human rights by this Constitution guaranteed to the people of Japan are fruits of the age-old struggle of man to be free; they have survived the many exacting tests for durability and are conferred upon this and future generations in trust, to be held for all time inviolate. Article 98.
The fundamental human rights by this Constitution guaranteed to the people of Japan result from the age-old struggle of man to be free. They have survived the exacting test for durability in the crucible of time and experience, and are conferred upon this and future generations in sacred trust, to be held for all time inviolate.
The National DietLibrary's online exhibition "Birth of the Constitution of Japan" presents the major events and important documents involved in the framing and enactment of Japan's Constitution.The exhibition was updated on May 3, 2004 with the addition of 81 new documents and a new section of main issues.
The Constitution of Japan [b] is the supreme law of Japan. Written primarily by American civilian officials during the occupation of Japan after World War II, it was adopted on 3 November 1946 and came into effect on 3 May 1947, succeeding the Meiji Constitution of 1889. [4]
Japan - Constitution { Adopted on: 3 Nov 1946 } { Effective since: 3 May 1947 } { ICL Document Status: 1994 } Preamble We, the Japanese people, acting through our elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we should secure for ourselves and our posterity
Japanese Constitution was jointly written by the government of occupied Japan and the American government, in a process taking nine months. On May 3, 1947, this Constitution was executed by “following amendment procedures in the Meiji Constitution.”
There or in its immediate environs are to be found the most notable of the “founding fathers” of the present Japanese Constitution. That one should have to seek on foreign shores for the author of the fundamental law of a great modern state is in itself a phenomenon unique in recent history.
With the exception of emperors as a feature of government, virtually no Japanese laws or government institutions in existence today predates the Meiji Restoration of 1868, and most of those still in place can only be traced as far back as the birth of the Meiji Constitution or later.
Japan’s present constitution is, obviously, a product of its history. An important facet of that history is the constitution which came before, the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, more commonly called the “Meiji Constitution,” after the Emperor Meiji who bestowed it on his subjects in 1889.