The showa restoration in japan

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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 transformationLiberal forces were not toppled by a coup overnightInstead, it was gradual, feed by a complex combination of internal and external factors The history that links the constitutional settlement of 1889 to the Showa Restoration in the 1930s is not an easy story to relateThe transformation in Japan's governmental structure involved; the historical period between 1868 and 1912 that preceded the Showa RestorationThis period of democratic reforms was an underlying cause of the militarist reaction that lead to the Showa Restoration