ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with two main objectives. First, it explores the question of how justices decide constitutional cases. Second, the book examines judicial contribution to self-restrained, conservative elite governance in Japan. Japanese elites have built a conservative democracy rather than a liberal democracy. If the individual citizen aspires to achieve a liberal democracy that places its highest priority on the realization of his or her rights and freedoms. The ruling conservative elites have made it their objective to ensure the nation's security and to advance the collective goods and services of their national constituents. The Supreme Court is identified the governing elites and functions towards the same conservative causes. The conservative governing elites have been sensitive to the Supreme Court's disapproval of government decisions on human rights and have been relatively receptive of judicial directives for correcting what the Court holds to be in contravention of the Constitution.
