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affiche du film Japan's peace constitution : http://www.cine.co.jp/kenpo/english.html

Japan's peace constitution
Japanese title: Eiga Nihon-koku Kempo
78 min/DVD,Video/A Siglo Production, 2005

Directed by John Junkerman Produced by Yamagami Tetsujiro Camera by Otsu Koshiro Music by Soul Flower Union
In 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, the conservative Japanese government is pressing ahead with plans to revise the nation's constitution and jettison its famous no-war clause, Article 9. This timely, hard-hitting documentary places the ongoing debate over the constitution in an international context: What will revision mean to Japan's neighbors, Korea and China? How has the US-Japan military alliance warped the constitution and Japan's role in the world? How is the unprecedented involvement of Japan's Self-Defense Force in the occupation of Iraq perceived in the Middle East? Through interviews conducted with leading thinkers around the world, the film explores the origins of the Constitution in the ashes of war and the significance of its peace clauses in the conflicted times of the early 21st century. Key interviews include: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Dower Paris-based social theorist Hidaka Rokuro Beate Sirota Gordon, drafter of the equal-rights clause of the Constitution Political philosopher and activist Douglas Lummis Political scientist Chalmers Johnson Kang Man-Gil, president of Sangji University, South Korea Shin Heisoo, co-representative, Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan Korean historian Han Hong Koo Chinese filmmaker and writer Ban Zhongyi Syrian writer Michel Kilo Lebanese journalist Josef Samaha Linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky

site de reflexion et de citoyennete sur les guerres asiatiques chine-coree-japon : http://www.froginawell.net/japan/category/political/

journal japonais de reference: JANJAN http://www.janjan.jp/index.php