Compare the articles and practices of the Constitution of Japan and China on a specific issue introduced in this course

Compare the articles and practices of the Constitution of Japan and China on a specific issue introduced in this course.

2. Explore the similarities and differences between them, and;
3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each constitutional setting.

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Question:

Compare

the articles and practices of the Constitution of Japan

and those of your country/jurisdiction

on a specific issue introduced in this course.

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Question (cont.):

* if you are a Japanese student,

choose one country/jurisdiction you prefer

and then compare its constitutional setting with that in the Constitution of Japan on a specific issue introduced in this course.

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Question (cont.):

Explore

the similarities and differences

between them, and;

Discuss

the advantages and disadvantages

of each constitutional setting.

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Possible issues (examples);

how people are represented in the government?

what sort of relationship exists between the legislative and executive organs?

how the judicial bodies guarantee constitutionality?

to what extent local government is autonomous?

how the government constructs its relationship with the civil society?

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Possible issues (examples);

what sorts of classification are prohibited in the equal protection clause?

how the right to privacy is specified and what kinds of privacy are protected?

what forms of expression are protected?

how the church/state are supposed to relate to each other?

to what extent the welfare of the individuals is secured?

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Requirements:

Length: 1000~1500 words

Format: doc. or docx.

Deadline: 31st July 2021

Submission: on Manaba+R

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Plagiarism is forbidden:

Plagiarism: ‘an act of copying another person’s ideas, words and work and pretending that they are your own.’

(Oxford Learner’s Academic Dictionary)

If you use someone’s ideas and words, you have to cite the source.

If you got someone’s help, you have to acknowledge it.

see, for example, https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism for further information.

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To students who wish to study the Constitution of Japan more in English, read Prof Matsui’s textbook

S. Matsui, The Constitution of Japan: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing 2010).

To students who wish to study the Constitution of Japan more in Japanese, read Prof Ashibe’s classic one first

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To students who wish to study the Constitution in your country in English, see the website below

Constitutional Systems of the World

Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

(Perhaps, you can also download the articles

on the International Journal of Constitutional Law from RITSUMEIKAN e-Journal Database)

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