Taro Nakayama (Chairman, Research Commission on the Constitution, House of Representatives, Japan)
| DATE: | Tuesday, September 2, 2003 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-1:30 p.m. |
| PLACE: | Alumni House |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies |
Dr. Taro Nakayama, the head of a blue-ribbon commission on constitutional reform and a former foreign minister, will speak on "The Research Commission on the Constitution and the Japanese Constitution in the 21st Century" from 12 noon to 1:30, Tuesday, September 2, at Alumni House.
Japan's blue-ribbon commission on constitutional reform will be visiting Berkeley to speak with faculty experts on constitutional law and US-Japan relations. The commission is considering the highly controversial move of revising the constitution's famous Article 9 -- the peace clause. Article 9 states that Japan will not maintain military forces or other war potential. The commission is also considering a wide range of other constitutional revisions.
The commission has been deliberating since 2000, and published an interim report in November 2002. It sent a research mission to Europe, but this is its first delegation to the United States. Former Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama is leading the delegation, along with two other Diet members: Yoshito Sengoku (Democratic Party of Japan) and Tomio Yamaguchi (Japanese Communist Party).
This event is free and open to the public.
Japanese language lecture with English translation
