After studying many models, Japan’s leaders drafted a constitution based on the German (Prussian) model of the time. In 1889, the Meiji Emperor bestowed this constitution upon the people of Japan. The ...

The Japanese did go to work, but MacArthur rejected their efforts in early February 1946 as "nothing more than a rewording of the old Meiji constitution." Eager to avoid interference from other ...

Starting in the Meiji period, sugoroku games were mass produced ... In the “Rights and Duties” section of that document, the constitution formalized the Japanese people’s relationship to the state.

In Japan, however, the government’s Committee to Study Constitutional Problems (so-called Matsumoto Committee) did not want to revise the old Meiji Constitution to make it worthy of the name of ...

But the Japanese constitution is like others in reading one way and operating ... Restoration Japan and which manœuvred to increase their influence during the era of Meiji. The ramifications of this ...

The Criminal Law sets out that state executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, a practice performed since the Meiji Era ... it violates Article 36 of the Constitution, which states ...

For over seventy years, Japan’s constitution has remained untouched, a symbol of a reformed nation and a democratic society. Introduced under U.S.-led occupation in the wake of World War II ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...