TY - BOOK AU - HUGHES Christopher TI - Why Japan could revise its constitution and what it would mean for Japanese security policy PY - 2006/// KW - JAPAN KW - SECURITY POLICY N2 - This article seeks to make sense of the policy debate on constitutional revision underway in Japan to consider what international and domestic factors are driving the debate forward. Additionally, it considers how various forms of constitutional revision if actually implemented, might affect Japan's military doctrines and capabilities the extent of its alliance cooperation with the United States ER -