But recent tensions in the region may partly reflect a lack of progress in another, overlooked area: Japanese constitutional reform. Indeed, despite the powerlessness so vividly highlighted by the Islamic State’s beheading of two Japanese hostages, Japan has not adopted even one amendment to the “peace constitution” that the occupying American forces imposed on it in 1947.
东京—随着日本在二战中战败七十周年纪念日的临近，对东亚复燃的历史争执的讨论和嗟叹也纷纷登场。但最近的地区紧张局势部分反映了另一个被忽略领域缺乏进展：日本的宪法改革。事实上，尽管伊斯兰国斩首两名日本人质如此生动地展现了日本的无力，但日本仍没有对1947年占日美军所制定的“和平宪法”做出哪怕一项修订。