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Protesting lasts for a year.
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Japan between wars.Students, university professors, and journalists, bolstered by labor unions and inspired by a variety of democratic, socialist, communist, anarchist, and other Western schools of thought, mounted large but orderly public demonstrations in favor of universal male suffrage in 1919 and 1920.
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Japan between the warsIn the midst of this political ferment, Hara was assassinated by a disenchanted railroad worker in 1921.
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Peace Preservation LawThe 1925 Peace Preservation Law was a direct response to the "dangerous thoughts" perpetrated by communist elements in Japan.
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Communism By 1926 the Japan Communist Party had been forced underground
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GovernmentUnstable coalitions and divisiveness in the Diet led the Kenseikai (Constitutional Government Association) and the Seiy Honto (True Seiyokai) to merge as the Rikken Minseito (Constitutional Democratic Party) in 1927.
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Communismby the summer of 1929 the party leadership had been virtually destroyed,
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AssasinationAlthough the world depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s had minimal effects on Japan--indeed, Japanese exports grew substantially during this period--there was a sense of rising discontent that was heightened with the assassination of Rikken Minseito prime minister Hamaguchi Osachi (1870-1931) in 1931.
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Alternation of poweruntil 1932, the Seiyokai and the Rikken Minseito alternated in power.
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Party is gone by 1933 the party had largely disintegrated.
