We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution

432 Pages·2002·33.838 MB·English

by  Dale M. Hellegers

Japanese
VOLUME TWO • TOKYO

Japanese
World War II and
the Origins
of the Japanese
Constitution
D A LE M. H E L L E G E RS
VOLUME TWO • TOKYO
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
2001
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
© 2002 Dale M. Hellegers
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hellegers, Dale M.
We, the Japanese people : World War II and the origins of the Japanese constitution /
Dale M. Hellegers.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8047-3454-2
i. World War, 1939-1945—Armistices. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Japan. 3. Japan—
History—Allied occupation, 1945—1952. 4. Constitutions—Japan. I. Title.
D8i3j3 H45 2001
940.53'i44'o952—dc2i
2001042977
Original printing 2001
Last figure below indicates year of this printing:
10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01
Designed and typeset by Princeton Editorial Associates, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona
To the memory of my father, Lieutenant Jay C. Moss,
who fought the war but never knew the peace.

CONTENTS
VOLUME TWO •TOKYO
10. Under Siege: The Early Days of Occupation 405
11. "Dust and Ashes": The Konoe Affair 438
12. "Opaque, Bureaucratic Secretiveness":
The Shidehara Government Looks at Constitutional Reform 461
13. Atomic Sunshine Boys: The Rise of the Government Section 487
14. A "Top Secret" Constitutional Convention 518
15. "For Your Convenience and Protection":
Negotiating with the Japanese Government 527
Epilogue 545
APPENDIXES
APPENDIX A The Preamble 553
APPENDIX B The Emperor and Miscellaneous Affairs 557
APPENDIX c Renunciation of War 576
APPENDIX D Civil Rights 580
APPENDIX E The Diet 612
APPENDIX F The Executive 630
APPENDIX G The Judiciary 645
APPENDIX H Public Finance 657
vu
vm Contents
APPENDIX i Local Government 666
APPENDIX j A Comparison of the MacArthur Draft and the
Japanese Government Draft of 2 March 1946
A Note on Citations and Abbreviations
7*3
Notes to Volume Two
Selected Bibliography 795
Index 809
Japanese
VOLUME TWO • TOKYO