The establishment of the Japanese constitutional system / Junji Banno ; translated by J.A.A. Stockwin.
1992
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Author
Title
The establishment of the Japanese constitutional system / Junji Banno ; translated by J.A.A. Stockwin.
Uniform Title
Meiji Kenpō taisei no kakuritsu. English
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Call Number
Jpn 910 B227 1992
ISBN
0415004977
Description
xv, 250 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24141992
Note
Translation of: Meiji Kenpō taisei no kakuritsu, 1971
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-240) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of tables
General editor's preface
Translator's introduction
Introduction: Issues and methods
1
Pt. I
The political situation before the Sino-Japanese War
1Some problems of transcendentalism
9
Inoue Kaoru and the plan to form the Jichito
12
Tani Tateki and the Japan Club
22
Tsuzuki Keiroku and bureaucratic transcendentalism
31
2'Enrich the Nation and Strengthen the Armed Forces' and 'Lighten the People's Burdens' as issues in the early Diet sessions
39
Expansionist policies
40
The tax reduction argument and its contradictions
51
From tax reduction to expansionist policies: the Jiyuto
59
From expansionist policies to hard-line anti-foreignism: the Kokumin Kyokai
66
From retrenchment policies to a hard-line anti-foreign position: the Kaishinto
73
Pt. II
Political conflict after the Sino-Japanese War
3Post-war reconstruction and the reactions of various political forces
85
4The formation of the Yamagata faction
100
The Second Ito Cabinet and the Yamagata faction
103
The Second Matsukata Cabinet and the Yamagata faction
110
5The question of increasing the land tax
122
The Second Matsukata Cabinet and the land tax increase question
123
The establishment of the Third Ito Cabinet
127
The Third Ito Cabinet and the land tax increase question
132
6The collapse of the party Cabinet
145
External causes: forces in the bureaucracy and the House of Peers
145
Internal factors: the internal contradictions of the Kenseito
156
The financial policy of the Kenseito Cabinet
161
The Kenseito split
166
7Concluding the land tax increase bill
170
The political emergence of commercial and industrial interests, and the land tax question
171
The Increase in the land tax and land assessment revision
176
The Kenseito
183
The Kenseihonto
190
Conclusion
200
App. 1: Sessions of the Imperial Diet in the 1890s
203
App. 2: Prime Ministers and their Cabinets in the 1890s
203
App. 3: General election results for the House of Representatives in the 1890s
204
App. 4: Political divisions in the House of Peers in the 1890s
205
App. 5: Notes on various groups
205
App. 6: Notes on personalities
206
Guide to sources
221
Notes
223
Index
241