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Episode 534 - The Imperial Democracy

Jun 21, 202438 minTranscript available on Metacast
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This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: during the 1920s, Japan's political system became more democratic and representative--an "imperial democracy" that evolved out of the Meiji system. How did this happen, and why did those democratic gains prove to be so unstable in the long term?

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