
Published online:
18 August 2016
Published in print:
04 October 2012
Online ISBN:
9780801466199
Print ISBN:
9780801449390
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The Purge The Purge
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The New Japanese Constitution The New Japanese Constitution
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Dissolution of the Zaibatsu and Land Reform Dissolution of the Zaibatsu and Land Reform
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Educational Reforms Educational Reforms
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The First Postwar General Election The First Postwar General Election
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Dissolution of the Ministry of Home Affairs Dissolution of the Ministry of Home Affairs
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Chapter
11 The Democratization of Japan, August 1945 to April 1950
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Pages
209–228
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Published:October 2012
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Masuda, Hiroshi, and Reiko Yamamoto, 'The Democratization of Japan, August 1945 to April 1950', in Reiko Yamamoto (ed.), MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea (Ithaca, NY , 2012; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 18 Aug. 2016), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801449390.003.0011, accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter discusses efforts to democratize Japan from August 1945 to April 1950. These include the policy of public purges implemented on the basis of Article 6 of the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, 1945: “there must be eliminated for all time the authority and influence of those have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest”; the enactment of a new constitution to replace the Meiji Constitution promulgated in 1889; dissolution of the Zaibatsu (or financial cliques) and land reform; educational reforms; the first postwar general election; and the dissolution of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Keywords:
Douglas MacArthur, democracy, democratization, Japan, public purges, Japanese constitution, land reform, educational reform, general elections, Ministry of Home Affairs
Subject
Military History
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