Person1878 – 1933
Yoshino Sakuzō
Tokyo Imperial University professor whose minponshugi — government for the people and by their wishes, leaving aside where sovereignty lay — inspired Taishō democracy
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Under the Taishō Emperor (1912–1926) a democratic current spread in Japan, as the movement to protect constitutional government and the idea of minponshugi pressed for party government and universal suffrage.
People who appear alongside
- Hara Takashi1856 – 1921
President of the Seiyūkai who formed Japan’s first full party cabinet in 1918 after the Rice Riots — the “commoner prime minister”; assassinated at Tokyo Station in 1921
- Inukai Tsuyoshi1855 – 1932
Party politician who led the movement to protect constitutional government and became prime minister (1931–1932) as Seiyūkai president; murdered in his residence by young naval officers in the May 15 Incident
Themes this person appears in
- Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949
The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle