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Originally Posted by Icon oclast
They can amend their constitution.
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That seems to be true but apparently even harder to do than in the States. From the same source:
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After 1952 conservatives and nationalists attempted to revise the constitution to make it more "Japanese", but these attempts were frustrated for a number of reasons. One was the extreme difficulty of amending it. Amendments require approval by two-thirds of the members of both houses of the National Diet before they can be presented to the people in a referendum (Article 96).
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Just following up the point, since you mentioned it and I'd read that, not that it makes the whole argument.
Steve