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- Title
EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW.
- Authors
TOMATSU, HIDENORI
- Abstract
The article reports on the development of the equal protection principle in the 1947 Japanese Constitution over forty years and its significant tendencies. The intent to embed the concepts of equality and equal protection into political, economic and social relations, and to prevent discrimination are presented. Judicial reviews of issues, such as the Patricide Case and the gender and creed discrimination case, are discussed. Reapportionment cases represent a third of unconstitutional rulings by the Supreme Court and the need for the Diet to make revisions in the apportionment rate is stressed. The author points out the interrelationship between the judiciary and political divisions to play a large role in determining the development of the equal protection principle.
- Subjects
JAPAN; CONSTITUTIONS; EQUALITY; POLITICAL science; ECONOMICS; JUDICIAL review; GENDER; APPELLATE courts
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1990, Vol 53, Issue 1/2, p109
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191844