Beate Shirota's Draft and the constitutions of Nations Defeated in World War II -The Formation Process of the Human Rights Articles in the Third Chapter of the Constitution of Japan (Part 3)-

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the features of the sections concerning the equal opportunity of education and the equality of both sexes drafted by beate shirota for the human rights articles in the third chapter of the constitution of Japan. We investigated the circumstances under which GHQ of the Allied Powers led by the United States had the constitution drafted. Then, we compared Beate Shirota's drafts with its counterparts in the new constitutions of Germany and Italy, Japan's Axis partners defeated in 1945.