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Japan between the wars

By gabby.knoblock
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    japan between wars

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    Unjiversal sufferage for men.

    Protesting lasts for a year.

  • universal male sufferage

    universal male sufferage
    Japan between wars.Students, university professors, and journalists, bolstered by labor unions and inspired by a variety of democratic, socialist, communist, anarchist, and other Western schools of thought, mounted large but orderly public demonstrations in favor of universal male suffrage in 1919 and 1920.

  • Assasination of Hara

    Assasination of Hara
    Japan between the warsIn the midst of this political ferment, Hara was assassinated by a disenchanted railroad worker in 1921.

  • Japenese communism party.

    Japenese communism party.
    Communismcommunism The Comintern realized the importance of Japan in achieving successful revolution in East Asia and actively worked to form the Japan Communist Party (Nihon Kyosanto), which was founded in July 1922.

  • Peace Preservation Law

    Peace Preservation Law
    Peace Preservation LawThe 1925 Peace Preservation Law was a direct response to the "dangerous thoughts" perpetrated by communist elements in Japan.

  • Communist party forced underground

    Communist party forced underground
    Communism By 1926 the Japan Communist Party had been forced underground

  • Constitutional Democratic party.

    Constitutional Democratic party.
    GovernmentUnstable coalitions and divisiveness in the Diet led the Kenseikai (Constitutional Government Association) and the Seiy Honto (True Seiyokai) to merge as the Rikken Minseito (Constitutional Democratic Party) in 1927.

  • Communist Party

    Communist Party
    Communismby the summer of 1929 the party leadership had been virtually destroyed,

  • Assasination of Rikken Minseito

    Assasination of Rikken Minseito
    AssasinationAlthough the world depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s had minimal effects on Japan--indeed, Japanese exports grew substantially during this period--there was a sense of rising discontent that was heightened with the assassination of Rikken Minseito prime minister Hamaguchi Osachi (1870-1931) in 1931.

  • Alternation of power

    Alternation of power
    Alternation of poweruntil 1932, the Seiyokai and the Rikken Minseito alternated in power.

  • Party is gone

    Party is gone
    Party is gone by 1933 the party had largely disintegrated.