Ashwani Gupta

45%
Flag icon
On the very day the new constitution came into effect, the government issued 20 million copies of a pocket-size booklet entitled Atarashii Kempō, Akarui Seikatsu (New Constitution, Bright Life). This astonishing number was supposed to ensure a booklet for every household in Japan. Atarashii Kempō, Akarui Seikatsu was only thirty pages long: a one-page send-off by Ashida Hitoshi (the chairman of the lower-house subcommittee on constitutional revision), a radiant thirteen-page introduction that included several illustrations, and the full text of the constitution itself. It was issued at the ...more
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Rate this book
Clear rating
Open Preview