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Japan delivers 21 Demands to China Japan occupy German-leased territories in Shandong Peninsula) and Marshall Islands.
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Inflation, low wages and commodity speculation leads to riots in July.
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Japan’s navy is limited to three-fifths the size of USA and Britain in the Washington Naval Conference. 20,000 worker strike at shipyards in Kobe to demand better working conditions.
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The Great Kanto Earthquake takes place in Sept and results in 140,000 killed.
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Publications Monitoring Department of the Home Ministry was created with separate sections for censorship, investigation and general affairs.
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The General Election Law was passed in the Diet in May. It extends suffrage to all males aged 25 and over. It was proposed by the Kenseitō political party . The law increased the electorate from 3,341,000 to 12,534,360.
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Peace Preservation Law introduced in April 22 1925. Special Higher Police (Tokko) was created to deal with ideological offenses (i.e. thought crimes) against the nation. They are are allowed to supress socialists and communists. Any party/group which tries to change kokutai(national essence) can face criminal prosecution. Criticism of the system of private property is also criminal. This is a form of “thought control” and more than 70,000 are arrested between 1925 to 1945
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with the reign of Emperor Hirohito
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It ends the rule of local warlords
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Advocates establishment of a military government.
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for ratifying London Naval Treaty
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The government can compel important industries to force all firms in an industry to join a cartel when more than two-thirds requested it. It was legal for zaibatsus to form large businesses to limit competition and to reghlate the production and prices of products they made and sold. Ship building, electric power, textiles, coal mining.
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LON formed to investigate the causes of the Mukden Incident
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The Mukden (Shenyang) Incident takes place
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Japanese wealthy businessmen and liberal politicians are targeted for assassination by the Ketsumeiden (Blood Brotherhood League)
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by 11 junior Naval officers for trying to stop army actions in Manchuria. Mitsubishi bank, the Seiyukai HQ and several power stations are also attacked. League of Blood activisted were arrested and put on trial. Military commanders were not condemned in the rebellion and pardoned.
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10 cabinet members are military officers. It is a turning point in militarism in Japan
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Japanese soldiers rebelled and occupied centre of Tokyo. Finance Minister and keeper of the Privy Seal were assassinated but the coup fails to gain imperial support. Imperial Way Faction carry out the coup and try to assassinate key figures.19 are arrested and tried in secret military court and executed. Imperial Control Faction gain influence and appoints active general as Minister for War.
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Hirota placated the military by reinstating the system by which only active-duty Army or Navy officers could serve in the Cabinet posts of war minister or navy minister.
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It focuses on national unity and expresses its wish to end internal disorder and dissatisfaction with political realities; It also tries to justify Japan's wartime nationalism.
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Takes place near Beijing on 8 July. It leads to full-scale war between Japan and China.
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The Cabinet Information Bureau is formed an apply censorship to all media. All print media needs to take cues from the Committee which issues all official press statements, and which worked together with the Publications Monitoring Department on censorship issues.
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He was Japanese Army Commander of the Japanese Korean Army during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria.
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He tries to secure pardons for the ultranationalist leaders of the 26 February incident, He refuses to appoint ministers from the political parties.
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causes US public opinion to turn against Japan
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Japan’s national economy put on wartime footing. The laws gave the government the authority to use unlimited budgets to subsidize war production, and to compensate manufacturers for losses caused by war-time mobilization. The law was attacked as unconstitutional when introduced to the Diet in January 1938