As pressure mounted from grass roots organizations like the Freedom Party, the Meiji government decided to finally draft a constitution. The process which brought it about, and the language which it employed, would determine the course of Japan's political future.
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11/21/24 • 28 min
A History of Japan - The Meiji Constitution
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Season 13, Episode 8: The Meiji Constitution
The assassination of Okubo Toshimichi in 1878 resulted in a significant power vacuum in the upper echelon of the Meiji government. Toshimichi was a very driven man who tended to steamroll those who offered resistance to his vision of a modernized Japan and, as we discussed in the previous episode, he had accumulated significant personal power throughout the 1870s. Although it had generally been agreed that the nation would draft and adopt a we
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