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The Constitution is Japan's Pledge of Peace to the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Fukushima Mizuho
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Four months after the landslide re-election of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro, Fukushima Mizuho, leader of Japan's Social Democrats (SDP), paints a through-the-looking-glass picture of the country Koizumi has helmed since 2001.

Even as much of the world's press hails the return of economic prosperity following the publication of Japan's best economic figures for more than a decade, Fukushima highlights the fallout from the Koizumi reforms: growing income and wealth disparities, social breakdown, declining birthrates and one of the most casualized economies in the developed world, providing a dystopic image of the once vaunted lifetime employment system.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , e10
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