The Changing Postwar International Legal Regime:The Role Played by Japan (International Law in Japanese Perspective, V. 8) (International Law in Japanese Perspective, V. 8)

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
(1) International law originating in a system of freedom of conscience......Page 14
(2) International law developing into a general order......Page 16
(3) International law rehabilitated in the postwar order......Page 20
(1) International society transformed into multiple civilized societies......Page 25
(2) An international order balancing world government and sovereign equality......Page 34
(1) Invalidation of the traditional order through the practice of counter-aggression......Page 37
(2) Survival of jus ad bellum in the practices around the time of the Second World War......Page 43
(3) Invalidation of jus in bello in favor of enforcement......Page 45
(4) Humanity as the higher norm of international society......Page 48
(1) The concept of a general order after the invalidation of international law......Page 50
(2) Practical compliance with social realities becoming a positive order in international society......Page 53
(3) Regional amendments becoming a positive order in international society......Page 57
(4) The United Nations as a system inclusive of \"enemy matters\"......Page 59
(1) Self-defense under the principle of no use of force......Page 63
(2) The intermediate function of self-defense between individual and public acts......Page 69
(3) The positive conditions of self-defense......Page 73
(1) Enforcement in succession to self-defense......Page 80
(2) Peacekeeping practiced as self-defense......Page 84
(1) General principles yielding to regional realities......Page 89
(2) Collective self-defense distinguished from individual self-defense......Page 94
(3) Practice and development......Page 96
(1) A collective system involving a decline in humanitarian principles......Page 101
(2) Self-defense as a modification of ideological characteristics......Page 107
1. \"Enemy\" status resulting from the invalidation of traditional international law......Page 109
(1) The Constitution of Japan 1946 in the postwar international regime......Page 116
(2) A US-Japan Security Treaty concluded outside the Constitution......Page 126
(1) A US-Japan Security Treaty unprejudiced by the UN Charter......Page 141
(2) Constitutional pacifism undermined by US-Japanese cooperation......Page 147
(1) The international regime into which Japan was taken after peace......Page 151
(2) Regional regimes to be taken into the future general regime......Page 156
5. Concluding remarks......Page 162
Select Bibliography......Page 164
Appendix......Page 169
C......Page 194
G......Page 195
M......Page 196
S......Page 197
W......Page 198
Z......Page 199