Institution: | Professor of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. I gratefully acknowledge the very helpful comments and suggestions of Cheryl Saunders, Yoichi Higuchi, and Yukiko Hasebe. Parts of this paper were read at the Colloquium: Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the International Association of Constitutional Law (Paris, May 2001). I benefited greatly from the reactions of the participants there. |