Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: Article 96

  • The True Face of Disgust–A Comment on Japanese Constitutional Politics

    –Kenji Ishikawa, Professor, University of Tokyo Faculty of Law Amongst the representative postwar works of Takami Jun – a writer little commented upon today – one finds the novel A Feeling of Disgust.[1] Its first-person narrator, speaking to readers in an informal, colloquial register, is a working-class anti-intellectual at odds with the claustrophobic mood of…