government in the 1920's to its radical nationalism of the mid 1930's,

the collapse of democratic institutions, and the eventual military

state was not an overnight transformation. There was no coup d'etat,

no march on Rome, no storming of the Bastille. Instead, it was a

political journey that allowed a semi-democratic nation to transform

itself into a military dictatorship. The forces that aided in this

transformation were the failed promises of the Meiji Restoration that

were represented in the stagnation of the Japanese economy, the

perceived capitulation of the Japanese parliamentary leaders to the

western powers, a compliant public, and an independent military.

The ground work for Japanese militarism was a compliant

Japanese public. This pliant public was created through a variety of

factors. Beginning in the 1890's the public education syste

The independence and decentralization of the military allowed

democratic but to the emperor; so the fact that the militaristic

religion which stressed nature and harmony. But during the 1930's it

became a ideological weapon teaching Japanese that they were a

technological edge it could defeat other Asian powers this increased

justification for nationalism and support for the militaristic

implemented programs characteristic of totalitarian governments such

it to act largely on its own will as characterized in the Manchurian

individualist values. These values taught obedience not to a

government of the 1920's. So when Japan's militaristic government

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