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Author Uyehara, Cecil H

Title The Subversive Activities Prevention Law of Japan : its creation, 1951-52 / by Cecil H. Uyehara
Published Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 454 pages)
Series Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; v. 33
Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 33.
Contents Introduction -- The context -- Phase I, Drafting the SAPL, 1951, under Attorney General Ōhashi -- Drafting the SAPL, Phase II, 1951-1952, under Attorney General Kimura -- Diet deliberations : House of Representatives -- Phase IV, diet deliberations : House of Councillors -- Conclusion -- Epilogue
Summary The Subversive Activities Prevention Law (SAPL) was the last major controversial law to be drafted at the end of the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) which was managed and controlled by General Headquarters (GHQ) under U.S. General MacArthur and was enacted into law after Japan had regained its formal independence in 1952. Soon after the Occupation began, prewar Japanese internal security laws were ordered abolished by the Occupation. Now that Japan would be re-gaining its independence in 1952, there was urgency to creating a new integrated national internal security law to fill the vacu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-443) and index
Notes English
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Subject Subversive activities -- Japan
Internal security -- Japan
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Internal security
Subversive activities
Japan
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009043365
ISBN 9789004181014
9004181016
1282951572
9781282951570
9786612951572
6612951575