POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tokugawa Shogunate, Soka Gakkai, Komeito
23 Mar 2017
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Also, when europe starts to explode: population divided into rigid social hierarchy six orders, live whole life in that social order, top: dimio (nobility), samurai (equivalent of knights in. Yasuda: power passing to hands of commercial class and diet in. 1920s: power starts to pass into the of a rising commercial class peaceful transition of power known as. Taisho democracy: period of taisho democracy, 1912-1926, universal manhood suffrage in 1925, london naval treaty in 1930 high point of parliamentary influence. Komeito depends on buddhist orgzn (soka gakkai) for support: japanese communist party and other smaller parties. Electoral system and representation: electoral system changed in 1994 reform, mixed proportional (mmp) combines 300 single-member district (smd) and 180 proportional representation (pr) system similar to that of. Implications for comparative politics: japan is a hybrid nation, geographically and ethnically asian, political & economic development similar to european nations, originally militaristic (from time of meiji restoration to the end of.
