Foreword
Part I Sovereignty
Chapter 1 Why We Should Not Take Sovereignty Too Seriously
Chapter 2 On the Dispensability of the Concept of Constituent Power
Chapter 3 Constitutional Revolution, Legal Positivism, and Constituent Power
Chapter 4 Images of the Market: Is the Competitive De-Regulation Inescapable?
Part II Constitutional Borrowing
Chapter 5 Constitutional Borrowing and Political Theory
Chapter 6 Constitutional Borrowing: The Case of the Monarchical Principle
Chapter 7 Montesquieu’s Significance for Contemporary Japan: What Japanese Constitutional Scholars Have Failed to Learn from Montesquieu
Chapter 8 Kant’s Rechtsstaat and Its Reception in Japan
Chapter 9 Book Review: Making We the People: Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea
Chapter 10 Constitutional Changes in Japan
Part III War and Emergency Powers
Chapter 11 War Powers
Chapter 12 The End of Constitutional Pacifism?
Chapter 13 Should the Japanese Government Be Granted Emergency Powers?
Part IV The Judiciary and Constitutional Reasoning
Chapter 14 The Supreme Court of Japan: A Judicial Court, Not Necessarily a Constitutional Court
Chapter 15 The Supreme Court of Japan: One Step Forward (But Only Discreetly)
Chapter 16 Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Chapter 17 Regulation of Telecommunication
Chapter 18 Judges’ Conscience and Constitutional Reasoning
Chapter 19 The Rule of Law and Its Predicament
Afterword: What is the Constitutional Identity of Japan?
Index