National / History | THE LIVING PAST May 14, 2016
Has pacifism always been doomed to fail in Japan?
by Michael Hoffman
Japan had a pacifist "constitution" long before 1947, when the current one went into effect. It was issued in the year 604, its author so esteemed, in his own time and since, as to merit the posthumous name Shotoku Taishi (Crown Prince Sage-Virtue). His ...