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Japan's orld ar 1 Emer in ensions S immi ration 1905: entlemen's A reement 1922: akao awa v nited States 1924: mmi ration Act bans Japanese 1915: wenty-ne emands

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Japan's orld ar

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Emer in ensions

S immi ration

1905: entlemen's A reement 1922: akao awa v nited States 1924: mmi ration Act bans Japanese

1915: wenty-ne emands to China 1918-1922: Siberian ntervention

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Anti-Colonial Movements

March 1 (orea) and May 4 (China) 1919

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Establishment Response

Compromise and Co-opt

1922: relax ban on women's participation in politics 1920: Social Affairs Bureau within Home Ministry 1925: universal male suffra e

Confrontation

1923: Post-earthquake massacre 1925: Peace Preservation Law 1928: JCP crackdown

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Establishment Response

Compromise and Co-opt

Accept postwar disarmament: 5 : 5: 3 naval ratio Cut military spendin : 55% (1918) to 29% (1924) Approach to China's Nationalist overnment

Returns Shandon Peninsula in 1922

Cultural Rule in orea

Confrontation

Refuse China's tariff autonomy Critique of weak-kneed diplomacy at home

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Crisis of mperial democracy

Perceptions of Japan at a dead end

  • Vs reality: not as bad?
  • People still saw threats all around: abroad at

home rural and urban all connected emocracy as means and not an end in itself Risin voices from the Left and the Ri ht for a different more statist kind of modernity

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Breakin the mpasse: Manchuria

wantun Army (190) shihara ani (1889-1949) 1928: Assassination of han uolin 1931: Manchurian ncident

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Popular Response

Enthusiastic support for war Anti-imperialist critics chan e Justice Ministry's Monthly hou ht Bulletin see divine wind Army Ministry report: Since the

Manchurian ncident confrontational attitudes between social classes have subsided he incident seems to have bred a spirit of solidarity

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