1. Democracy in 1920's Japan
Education had been universalized, and social mobility seemed to be on the increase. ... Again, the constitutional makeup of the Japanese state meant that the role of the military and imperial court could easily outweigh that of civilian government, any serious questioning of the social order was crushed without mercy, and any liberal measures that were passed 'were accompanied by others that seemed to point in the opposite direction17.' To illustrate the last point, although reforms were pushed through the Diet to reduce the strength of the army, they were offset by the introducti...
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