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Militarist JP (chapt 3) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Govt encouraged loyalty and respect for the emperor, which lead to the new govt not having alot of power
- - - - Divide between civilian
        and military govt
        
        Military opposed internationalist policy of diplomacy and disregarded civillian govt and emperor could not enforce control
        
        Civilian govt was divided as 2 different parties were elected thus cannot gain support of majority and some cabinets could not be formed due to military refusal to supply ministers
  - - - Countryside did not benefit
        as much as city dwellers
        
        Farmers did not benefit as tech could not spread fast enough
  - - - Traditionalist grps were worrying that JP was losing its identity as young women were starting to find jobs in cafes and at silk mills and that they were not traditional house wives (threat to society and values)
    - - Zaibatsus created, leading to the rich becoming
        richer and the poor staying poor
        
        The growing discontentment of the poor towards the rich increased lead to riots like the Rice Riot which was due to the increase in price of commodities
  - - - JP exports decreased, causing farmer income to decrease by an average of 43% and farmers formed unions and protested
    - - Shops struggled to attract customers, causing many shops to close (twice the amt as normal years in 1930), then owners joined protest movements that claimed that the govt was only helping the rich and letting the small businesses shut down
    - - Caused mass unemployment, with 15 to 20 percent becoming unemployed, causing workers to protest against employers
    - - Many workers were attracted by the communists criticising the state and calliing for a revolution and the govt was worried abt it
    - - Lead to the JPese to believe that the CV govt only cared for the rich (zaibatsus and stuff) and believed that they were working with them.
- - - - Kwantung Army killed him thinking to replace him, but emperor criticised their actions, asking the PM to stop them but he couldnt, showing how little power PM had over military and that they could defy PM
    - - Radicals (Colonel Ishiwara Kanji) believed that
        Manchuria should be a colony of JP and that a war
        against US was inevitable.
        
        So, they blew up railway tracks at Mukden and blamed it on China, and managed to take over Manchuria and this was seen extremely positively by the public and improved opinions towards military and showed the CV govt incompetence
  - - - May 15 incident where a group of naval officers and different activists assassinated PM Ki Inukai for refusing to recognise manchuko as a colony and had many different attacks hoping that citizens would support them.
    - - This incident lead to the emperor imposing martial law and the new PM was a navy admiral, giving a military majority in the govt, showing that JP now came under militarist rule
- - - - February 26 incident in 1936 where officers in the imperial way faction staged a coup and failed which caused the imperial way faction to lose influence and give control more
      - Loss of political power for civillain govt