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- Taisho=great righteousness (new empire)
- period in 1920's
- increase in influence of political parties
- oligarchs are getting too old and dying so it is a struggle who will take over
- civil burecrats- professional civil servants
- Military burecrats -top ministries of the military (important: you need to be active duty to be in one of these positions)
- professional political party members- ppl in the lower house
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- Struggle to have the right to increase the budget of sections of the gov't should it be the military or the parties
- military wanted to increase the budget and party men said no (cuz they have the power of the budget)
- so military said they will not fill the ministry of the army or navy positions which caused a crisis
- lower house threatens to get a non active officer of the military to fill the positions
- military backs down
- political party victory
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- 1918 prime minister steps down and which of the 3 groups will have the strength to fill the position
- political parties win with the selection of this guy
- leader of the Seiyukai party
- interesting cuz he:
- is not a military man
- not a peer
- not an oligarch
- 1st man to be in a pol. party in the lower house
- 1918-21 the cabinet comes from lower house
- ticks off the military
- gave favors to ppl in his party
- dropped property qualifications by 2/3s more men can now vote!
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- period of 1921-1924 there were several prime ministers
- 1924-1932 the prime minister
- minseito party leader
- 8 yr period of true taisho democracy
- party man competes with the elites
- his rule
- control the other groups
- sucessful with military and civil servants
- cuts the budget with military from 42% of budget to 28%
- cuts 20,000 civil burecrat jobs
- known for 2 laws
- Universal manhood sufferage
- all men can vote over age of 25, no property restrictions
- Peace preservation act
- 1. officially prohibits groups that advocate change in japan's political system
- 2. prohibits groups that want to get rid of property (communists)
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- 1921-22 held in DC USA called the confernce
- key was to have a new kind of international argeements without violence
- purpose to deal with issues from WWI
- 9 countries involved
- USA, britian, france, Italy, Japan, China, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal
- Russia and germany not invited!!
- 3 treaties
- 9 power treaty
- all countries involved, vague
- if problems with china discussion with every country not war or violence, the spheres of influence is ok but shouldn't take anything from china
- 4 power treaty
- Britain, France, USA, and Japan
- not good to have treaties bw/only 2 countries replaced all old treaties to include all
- each of the 4 will respect the others position in the pacific
- discussion no violence
- 5 power treaty
- naval armys treaty
- limits of battle ships
- for every 5 battleships britain can have, the USA can have 5, Japan can have 3 and france & Italy can have 1.75
- idea to slow down naval fire power
- jap. not happy
- reason usa and brit can have more cuz they have two ocean navys and jap only has one!
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- WWI 1914-18 japan has joined the western imperialist powers
- they have colonies in korea and taiwan, also extensive rights in china
- The treaty of Versailles confermed this status cuz they could continue to keep Shandong area
- He went to the Treaty of Versailles conference
- foreign minister of the 1920's and even when he wasn't he had great deal of influence
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- 4 main ideas of Shidehara Kijuro
- 1. Most important, critical for japan to participate in the west deals
- west was the market, source of raw materials and technology
- 2. China issue is world-wide not just asia!
- China is a mess and everyone is fearful for the outcome
- japan needs to dicuss with west b4 acting in china
- 3. Since everyone is interested in china they need to pick a group to support!
- he selects the Guomindang
- 4. The world needs to know that Japan has a special interest in Manchuria
- they will NOT have to dicuss with the world what they do in this area
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