Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan: The Failure of the First Attempt

TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. THE TOKUGAWA BACKGROUND II. PARTY EMERGENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHIC STRUGGLE WITH THE GOVERNMENT III. THE POPULAR BASIS OF EARLY JAPANESE PARTIES IV. THE NATURE OF EARLY PARTY ORGANIZATION AND TACTICS V. THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN JAPANESE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND THEORY, 1890-1913 VI. THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN JAPANESE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND THEORY, 1913-1932 VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE CAPITALISM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PARTY MOVEMENT VIII. THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE LEFT IX. THE MILITARIST ERA AND PARTY COLLAPSE X. THE PROBLEM OF JAPANESE DEMOCRACY