Donald Keene holds a copy of the English version of his work "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912," at the Kita Ward Central Library in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2011. Keene donated books and ...

It may be withering now. A portrait taken prior to 1921 of Takashi Hara, the 'Great Commoner' who served as the fourth prime minister of Japan. | KINSEI MEISHI SHASHIN VOL. 1 (1934-35)/ PUBLIC ...

The Meiji Constitution was drawn up in the ... In Nihon kaizō hōan taikō (An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan), Kita wrote that the emperor should use his authority to suspend ...

The people of Japan remained subjects of the emperor even as some sought greater rights as citizens. The Beginnings of Modern Constitutional Government in Meiji Japan. In 1868, a group of young ...

Four years hence Japan would defeat vast, backward Russia and emerge as a foremost Pacific power. His grandfather, the reigning emperor, was the bold, shrewd Emperor Meiji, in whose name the ...

The Meiji government said “Japanese” people had to be protected, even though at that time the Ryukyu kingdom was still not considered a part of Japan. Japanese troops took revenge by ...

The Allied Occupation and the Japanese Emperor Post-surrender planning for ... After the war, Japanese authorities sought simply to amend the 1889 Meiji Constitution. But the Allies wanted a ...