The Postwar and the Japanese Constitution

The phrase 'sixty years of the post-war' is often used to mean '60 years since the end of the war' or 'these past sixty years'. However, the term 'post-war' itself is premised on a 'pre-war' and a 'wartime'. In other words, prior to the sixty years of post-war, there is the disjuncture between 'post-war', on the one hand, and 'pre-war' and 'wartime' on the other. For me, it is this experience of disjuncture that is the starting point of 'post-war

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