Can the Supreme Court of Japan overturn acts of the National Diet? To put that in context, over roughly the same period, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down over 900 laws on constitutional grounds, and the German Bundesverfassungsgericht [Federal Constitutional Court] has struck down over 600. The fact that the prime minister used appointment to the Supreme Court as a way of sidelining someone whose constitutional law views he didn’t like tells you a lot about the Supreme Court of Japan’s lack of power. What aspect of the Supreme Court of Japan do you see as superior to that of the Supreme Court of the United States? What aspect of the Supreme Court of the United States do you see as superior to that of the Supreme Court of Japan?