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“The 1889 Japanese Constitution was designed to pacify the opposition without deposing the ruling oligarchy.” Discuss.
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13. "The 1889 Japanese Constitution was designed to pacify the opposition without deposing the ruling oligarchy." Discuss. A. To a little extent, the granting of the constitution was to conciliate opposing parties existing in Japan which agitated for representative government. This was because: (1) Ever since the split of the central government in 1873 (Korean Affair) Itagaki and his followers led a political agitation in favour of democratic institution to weaken the Satsuma-Choshu oligarchy. To conciliate the demands of the opposition: (a) Government established a Senate (Genro-in ) and a separate court of justice (Daishin-in) and a Council of Governors to meet the charge against the high centralization of power (The Osaka Compromise, 1875). (b) In 1878, another concession: establishment of provincial assemblies the first elected political body anywhere in the non-western world. (2) By 1880s, the opposition grew to become something much wider than more protest by Samurai of Tosa and Hizen. Resembled rather...
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