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Peer reviewedChino, Noriko – Language & Communication, 1999
When Japan surrendered in 1945, General MacArthur demanded that the Japanese adopt his draft of a new Americanized Constitution. This article focuses on one of the 11 chapters of the Japanese Constitution, Chapter 1 "The Emperor." Discourse analysis is used to examine portions of MacArthur's draft compared with its Japanese translation.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Constitutional Law, Discourse Analysis, English
