Yasuo Hasebe

Yasuo Hasebe

Yasuo Hasebe, legal scholar, professor at Waseda University Faculty of Law (photo taken on June 15, 2015)

Constitutional law scholars meet press at Diet building

Constitutional law scholars meet press at Diet building

Yoichi Higuchi (C), a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, speaks in a press conference by the Save Constitutional Democracy Japan group at the Diet building in Tokyo on June 24, 2015, with Setsu Kobayashi (L), a professor emeritus at Keio University, and Yasuo Hasebe, a professor at Waseda University, sitting next to him. The group of constitutional law and other scholars demanded a retraction of security bills that they claimed are unconstitutional. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Constitutional scholars call security bills unconstitutional

Constitutional scholars call security bills unconstitutional

Waseda University Professor Yasuo Hasebe (R) and Setsu Kobayashi, honorary professor at Keio University, attend a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on June 15, 2015. They reiterated that the security bills pushed by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to enable the Self-Defense Forces to engage in collective self-defense violate Japan's pacifist Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Waseda professor attends lower house constitutional panel session

Waseda professor attends lower house constitutional panel session

Waseda University professor Yasuo Hasebe is called to speak at a meeting of the House of Representatives Research Commission on the Constitution as an unsworn witness in the National Diet Building in Tokyo on June 4, 2015. He and two other witnesses said the package of national security bills submitted by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe violates Japan's pacifist Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo