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Liberal Japan
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Political Change
Genro: The power of Meiji Oligarchs were fading as they were dying out and the modernisation programme launched by them were fading out of people's recognition and memory. Genro was extra-constitutional existence. They were not necessary for the new era
The movement towards Democracy: Formation of political organisations by the citizens all around Japan. Many of the party held universal suffrage as central slogan.
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Social Change
Freedom of Expression
Expansion of freedom of association, speech and meetings thanks to the success of labour's union, agrarian movement, and Women's suffrage movement.
Free Press: Osaka Asahi Shinbun which were the most popular newspaper and Chūō Kōron a literary review magazine that reflected the views of the intellectuals together inspired and propagated democracies around Japan
Universities winning independence and autonomy from the government. Artistic organisation gaining independency from the Minsitry of Education, Science, and Culture.
Foreign fashionable ideology permeating to Japan: The news on the Russian revolution and other revolutions as well as the establishment of the International Labour Organisation in 1919 has raised the Japanese public's interest in politics
Socialism
Popular demand for political freedom has flourished in forms of social freedom. Socialism became influential to some extent
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Communist
Peace preservation law: The government feared the weakening of the emperor's prestige due to the permeating communism which was inspired by the Soviet Union. The law limited political activities of the communists.
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