Meiji Constitution

Why is Keiko’s experience in the 1960 film, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, a good metaphor for the experience of women in postwar Japanese society?

1. Based on chapter one of the Meiji Constitution (1889), why did the Prussian constitution serve so appropriately as a model for Japan’s own constitution? What did the structure of a constitutional monarchy provide to Japan? Chapter I. The Emperor. Article 1.The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of […]

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