MacArthur himself commented early on that meeting this goal would certainly require a "revision of the Meiji Constitution." But even he could not have imagined that a few months later, his young ...

Tensions arose between the growing interest in liberal political thinking and the established political context, established through the Meiji Constitution of 1889 ... relations to economy, social ...

One of the provisions that was not in the preceding Meiji Constitution is Article 23 ... In the absence of any clear structure of accountability, the lives and health of citizens were imperiled ...

A photo tucked inside the bundle of documents was of a building with the words “the Privy Council’s structure ... under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, or the Meiji Constitution.