"Restore The Emperor Expel The Barbarians": The Causes Of The Showa Restoration
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Sonno joi, "Restore the Emperor and expel the Barbarians," was the
battle cry that ushered in the Showa Restoration in Japan during the
1930's.Footnote1 The Showa Restoration was a combination of Japanese nationalism,
Japanese expansionism, and Japanese militarism all carried out in the name of
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.... forces were not toppled by a coup overnight. Instead, it was gradual,
feed by a complex combination of internal and external factors.
The history that links the constitutional settlement of 1889 to the
Showa Restoration in the 1930s is not an easy story to relate. The
transformation in Japan's governmental structure involved; the historical period
between 1868 and 1912 that preceded the Showa Restoration. This period of
democratic reforms was an underlying cause of the m ....
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