메이지헌법의 성립 및 패전 후 일본국헌법으로의 전개과정 = The Enactment of the Meiji Constitution and the Progression of the Japanese Constitution after the War

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The progression of the Japanese Constitution after the war as well as the contents and the process of enacting the Meiji constitution shows how the japanese aggression towards Asia countries is defined in the present constitution system of Japan. The Japanese do not overcome the past history of aggression, failing to abolish the Tenno institution in the Meiji constitution completely, in the present constitution of Japan. Article 9 of the Constitution, a war-renouncing article that is the abnormal system as the price of maintenance of the Tenno institution, makes it harder to overcome the history. These problems turn up as the tendency of regressing to the past Meiji constitution. The inherent contradiction of the Japanese Constitution which is caused by the failure to clear the past history of aggression will appear in the form of the regression if the Article 9 of the Constitution is to be revised and the Tenno institution is maintained. Tenno, who is responsible for the past war of aggression, has the constitutional symbolical status in Japan. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to overcome the past historical wrongs but rather the possibility that The Japanese go back to the past is immanent in the Japanese Constitution