... was little other than a constitutional nicety, its wings easily clipped by the conservative elements in Japanese politics – the structural makeup as defined by the Meiji constitution made it so. The ambiguity surrounding the role of the emperor and the military in the structure of Japanese government is commented on by Kato Shuichi, saying that 'the very fact that there was a liberalization ... ...

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