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...seemingly reasonable comment that the country's military?pointedly called the Self-Defense Force (SDF) might take "extralegal" measures if the homeland ever came under surprise attack. Any Japanese politician who so much as suggested amending the pacifist clause of the constitution was effectively committing career suicide. Shinichi Kitaoka, a law professor and diplomatic history expert at the University of Tokyo, says the government "long ago decided that its hold on power will be more secure if it stays away from the military question." And the U.S. guaranteed Japan's security, with its own bases scattered around the archipelago, tens...
...9/11, the Diet passed the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law, which authorized the SDF to support international antiterrorist activities overseas. Under that legislation, the Kirishima was sent to the Indian Ocean?an interpretation of antiterrorism that some believe stretches Japan's constitution to its very limit. Says law professor Kitaoka: "Remilitarization is indeed going on, but no one is willing to take on the task of changing the legal framework." In fact, many legal experts claim that a number of the recent military laws are unconstitutional, yet no serious challenge to declare them as such or repeal them has reached...
Compromise came last week in the I. L. O. elections when Mr. Phelan withdrew, accepted the deputy directorship, paved the way for the election of Mr. Winant. Japanese Delegate Juitsu Kitaoka, annoyed at reports he opposed an American director, pulled for the winner...
Horse Trade. The delegates in Washington well knew, however, that their job was more than finding dry-as-dust facts. They were there to trade and they knew it. Otherwise the Japanese delegation would not have been headed by able Juitsu Kitaoka, a small, dapper diplomat with a reputation for guile. Otherwise Britain would not have sent a delegation of 210 members including Lieut. Colonel Anthony John Muirhead, Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Labor, or India her High Commissioner in London, Sir Firoz Khan Noon. Czechoslovakia would not have sent her Minister of Social Welfare Jaromir Necas, nor would...
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