Making We the People

Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea

af Chaihark (Yonsei University Hahm

In 2014, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo announced the expansion of Japan's war powers, challenging a constitutional precedent that had been in place for seventy years. This book examines the history of Japan and Korea's post-World War II constitution-making, in order to shed light on the countries' modern legacies.