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Jus ad Bellum Implications of Japan's New National Security Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Craig Martin
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Far-reaching revisions to Japan's national security laws became effective at the end of March 2016. Part of the government's efforts to “reinterpret” Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, the revised laws authorize military action that would previously have been unconstitutional. The move has been severely criticized within Japan as being a circumvention and violation of the Constitution, but there has been far less scrutiny of the international law implications of the changes.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 10 , May 2016 , e2
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