The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System Book

	List of tables
	General editor's preface
	Translator's introduction
	Introduction: Issues and methods	1
Pt. I	The political situation before the Sino-Japanese War
1	Some problems of transcendentalism	9
	Inoue Kaoru and the plan to form the Jichito	12
	Tani Tateki and the Japan Club	22
	Tsuzuki Keiroku and bureaucratic transcendentalism	31
2	'Enrich the Nation and Strengthen the Armed Forces' and 'Lighten the People's Burdens' as issues in the early Diet sessions	39
	Expansionist policies	40
	The tax reduction argument and its contradictions	51
	From tax reduction to expansionist policies: the Jiyuto	59
	From expansionist policies to hard-line anti-foreignism: the Kokumin Kyokai	66
	From retrenchment policies to a hard-line anti-foreign position: the Kaishinto	73
Pt. II	Political conflict after the Sino-Japanese War
3	Post-war reconstruction and the reactions of various political forces	85
4	The formation of the Yamagata faction	100
	The Second Ito Cabinet and the Yamagata faction	103
	The Second Matsukata Cabinet and the Yamagata faction	110
5	The question of increasing the land tax	122
	The Second Matsukata Cabinet and the land tax increase question	123
	The establishment of the Third Ito Cabinet	127
	The Third Ito Cabinet and the land tax increase question	132
6	The collapse of the party Cabinet	145
	External causes: forces in the bureaucracy and the House of Peers	145
	Internal factors: the internal contradictions of the Kenseito	156
	The financial policy of the Kenseito Cabinet	161
	The Kenseito split	166
7	Concluding the land tax increase bill	170
	The political emergence of commercial and industrial interests, and the land tax question	171
	The Increase in the land tax and land assessment revision	176
	The Kenseito	183
	The Kenseihonto	190
	Conclusion	200
	App. 1: Sessions of the Imperial Diet in the 1890s	203
	App. 2: Prime Ministers and their Cabinets in the 1890s	203
	App. 3: General election results for the House of Representatives in the 1890s	204
	App. 4: Political divisions in the House of Peers in the 1890s	205
	App. 5: Notes on various groups	205
	App. 6: Notes on personalities	206
	Guide to sources	221
	Notes	223
	Index	241