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 the Showa Emperor, Hirohito. Unlike the

Meiji Restoration, the Showa Restoration was not a resurrection of the

Emperor's powerFootnote2, instead it was aimed at restoring Japan's

prestige. During the 1920's, Japan appeared to be developing a

democratic and peaceful government. It had a quasi-democratic

governmental body, the Diet,Footnote3 and voting rights were extended

to all male citizens.Footnote4 Yet, underneath this seemingly placid

surface, lurked momentous problems that lead to the Showa Restoration.

The transition that Japan made from its parliamentary government of

the 1920's to the Showa Restoration and military dictatorship of the

late 1930s was not a sudden transformation. Liberal 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 settleme

Edwin O. Reischauer Japan Past and Present (Tokyo: Charles Tuttle

advocates of this new drive for land and colonies. Young army officers

Japanese government to the West.Footnote27 The Japanese military

within Japan.Footnote33 The militarists identified the Japanese

was growing at vastly different rates between the urban areas and

Footnote35 Citing the explosion as a security concern, the Japanese

Power Treaty forced other naval powers to refrain from building

population were touched little by the momentous changes this lead to

forced to focus on the war raging in Europe. During the period

crisis into a total shift in foreign policy. These "restorationists"

suffered inordinately. Japan's rural economy was particularly hard-hit

capitulating to the West in adopting democratic principals, many in

embodied under the idea of the Showa Restoration. When League of

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