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9Yasuhiro Okudaira, Forty Years of the Constitution and Its Various Influences: Japanese, American, and European, in Percy R. Luney, Jr. and Kazuyuki Takahashi, Japanese Constitutional Law, University of Tokyo Press. 1993. n. 2.
10Theodore McNelly, The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution, Maryland, Lanham: University Press of America, 2000, p. 1.
