Democracy and Militarism in Japan, 19051931

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Democracy and Militarism in Japan, 1905-1931
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Korea under Japanese Rule

• Protectorate 1905
• Annexation 1910
• Banned Korean newspapers
• Japanese education
• Confiscation of farm land

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Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla fighters, 1907
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The Taisho Era

• Death of Meiji Emperor 1912
• Emperor Taisho (r. 1912-1926)
• Japanese elites
• The Genro (Elder Statesmen)
• Military
• Political Parties
• Taisho Democracy
• Hara Kei (1856-1921)
• Universal Male Suffrage 1925
• Peace Preservation Law 1925

The first party politician to serve as prime
minister, Hara Kei
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The Taisho Emperor (Yoshihito), reigned 1912-1926
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Japanese Foreign Policy

• Playing the Imperialist game
• 21 Demands 1915
• League of Nations
• Washington Treaty System
• Return of Shandong
• Shidehara Kijuro (1872-1951)
• Tanaka Giichi (1863-1929)

The Washington Naval Conference, 1922
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Shidehara Kijuro
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Tanaka Giichi
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The Seizure of Manchuria

• Kwantung Army
• Assassination of Zhang Zuolin 1928
• Great Depression
• London Naval Conference 1930
• Mukden Incident 1931
• Manchukuo 1932
• Lytton Commission

Kwantung Army officer in Manchuria
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Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin (1873-1928)
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Zhang Zuolin (center) Warlord of Manchuria
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Mukden Incident
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Pu Yi, last emperor of China and emperor of
Manchukuo
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The Lytton Commission