Japan Adopts Postwar Constitution: Democracy Replaces Empire
Allied leaders Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration demanding Japan's unconditional surrender while mandating the removal of all obstacles to democratic tendencies. This external blueprint triggered the most exhaustively planned political transformation in world history, replacing militarism with a parliamentary system where the Emperor serves as a ceremonial symbol under a constitution that renounces war entirely.
May 3, 1947
79 years ago
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