Nippon Shi Kara Mita Nipponjin Showa Hen "Rikken Kunshu Koku" No Hokai to Hanei No Nazo (Shodensha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] Why did the Japanese in the Showa period become less good at diplomacy than in the Meiji and Taisho periods? And why did they lose the ability to govern? According to the author, the "change" began in 1930. The author then discovers that the "tragedy of the Showa period" caused by the runaway military lies in two defects of the Meiji Constitution. In the first place, the Meiji Constitution was a "strange" constitution in which the words "Prime Minister," "Prime Minister," and "Cabinet" did not appear even once. This is a masterful book that carefully explains how Japan plunged into the war, based on historical facts. Now that the debate on constitutional revision is underway, we are reprinting the book!

なぜ、昭和の日本人は明治・大正に比べ、外交下手になったのか。そして、被統治能力を失ったのか。著者いわく、その“変調”は昭和五年に始まったという。そして、軍部の暴走による「昭和の悲劇」が、明治憲法の二つの欠陥にあることを突き止める。そもそも明治憲法は、「首相」「総理大臣」「内閣」という言葉が一度も出てこない「奇妙な」憲法だった。日本が戦争に突入していった経緯を、歴史的事実を積み上げて丁寧に読み解いた名著。憲法改正論議が進む今、復刊!