The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System : Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies - Junji Banno

The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System

By: Junji Banno, JAA Stockwin (Translator)

Hardcover | 30 April 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Between 1868 (when it came to power) and 1890, the Meiji Government wielded despotic power, and was able to strengthen the military and promote industry for as long as its finances permitted. After the Diet (parliament) was established, however, the Government found itself facing challenges to this policy from the popular parties'. The parties demanded that government expenditures and the burden of tax falling on the farmers should be decreased. They also demanded that despotic government should be replaced by party cabinets. But by 1900 one of the most popular parties had given up its demand for tax reduction, and begun to support the government policy of industrialisation. At the same time, one faction of the oligarchic Government changed its attitude towards political parties. Why and how such a drastic change in basic attitudes should have taken place during the first decade of Japanese parliamentary politics presents us with a fascinating series of questions. To answer these questions, the book analyses the constitutional framework and the economic interests of the parties' key supporters, namely, agricultural landowners. Under the Meiji Constitution of 1889, the popular parties were not able to achieve reduction of government expenditure and taxation. At the same time, the Government was not able to increase them without the consent of the Diet, in whose Lower House the parties enjoyed a majority of seats. Both sides needed to find some sort of solution to overcome this deadlock. In addition, the changing interests of the agricultural landowners in the middle of the 1890s also forced the party leaders to modify their demand for cheap government'.
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"This is a useful book for the serious student of Japanese political history." -Sir Hugh Cortazzi, "Proceedings of the Japan Society "This is an important work of scholarship translated into English with great skill . . . can be read with profit by all political historians interested in the creation of constitutional systems." -"Asian Affairs

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