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... hands held the reins of actual power , they always did so on behalf of the Emperor . There was no design upon the Imperial position , everything in the abstract was his . None of the daimyos owned the land they possessed , it was all ...
... hands held the reins of actual power , they always did so on behalf of the Emperor . There was no design upon the Imperial position , everything in the abstract was his . None of the daimyos owned the land they possessed , it was all ...
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... hands , as it were , all the ramifying threads of the political life of the country . His Imperial Majesty has himself deter- mined a Constitution , and has made it a fundamental law to be observed both by the Sovereign and by the ...
... hands , as it were , all the ramifying threads of the political life of the country . His Imperial Majesty has himself deter- mined a Constitution , and has made it a fundamental law to be observed both by the Sovereign and by the ...
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... hands of the Adminis- tration in the life - and - death struggle with a foreign foe . Almost every able editor in Japan strenuously advocated the same course . So it was that , at the very time when men boded , if not actual civil war ...
... hands of the Adminis- tration in the life - and - death struggle with a foreign foe . Almost every able editor in Japan strenuously advocated the same course . So it was that , at the very time when men boded , if not actual civil war ...
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... hands of the Government were strengthened by the support of the leading statesmen of the country , co - operating regard- less of party feelings . In Japan , matters of foreign policy are not made the chance playthings of changing ...
... hands of the Government were strengthened by the support of the leading statesmen of the country , co - operating regard- less of party feelings . In Japan , matters of foreign policy are not made the chance playthings of changing ...
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... hand and the expansion of the national power abroad . Now that the war between Japan and China has showed the dignity and power of our country to other nations , the national fortunes are to be increased by commercial and industrial ...
... hand and the expansion of the national power abroad . Now that the war between Japan and China has showed the dignity and power of our country to other nations , the national fortunes are to be increased by commercial and industrial ...
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Page 68 - Meiji, a fundamental law of State, to exhibit the principles, by which We are to be guided in Our conduct, and to point out to what Our descendants and Our subjects and their descendants are forever to conform.
Page 43 - to leave behind him the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy or turned his back on a big one.
Page 127 - Elementary schools are designed to give children the rudiments of moral education specially adapted to make of them good members of the community, together with such general knowledge and skill as are necessary for the practical duties of life, due attention being paid to their bodily development.
Page 445 - If these self-evident truths are kept before us, and only if they are so kept before us, we shall have a clear idea of what our foreign policy in its larger aspects should be. It is our duty to remember that a nation has no more right to do injustice to another nation, strong or weak, than an individual has to do injustice to another individual; that the same moral law applies in one case as in the other. But we must also remember that it is as much the duty of the Nation to guard its own rights...
Page 9 - The rights of sovereignty of the State, We have inherited from Our Ancestors, and We shall bequeath them to Our descendants. Neither We nor they shall in future fail to wield them, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution hereby granted.
Page 68 - Having, by virtue of the glories of Our Ancestors, ascended the throne of a lineal succession unbroken for ages eternal; desiring to promote the welfare of, and to give development to, the moral and intellectual faculties of Our beloved subjects, the very same that have been...
Page 67 - X. Upon the demise of the Emperor, the Imperial heir shall ascend the Throne and shall acquire the Divine Treasures of the Imperial Ancestors.
Page 10 - The sovereign power of reigning over and governing the State is inherited by the Emperor from his ancestors, and by him bequeathed to his posterity. All the different legislative as well as executive powers of State, by means of which he reigns over the country and governs the people, are united in the Most...
Page 446 - ... their own peoples, more responsive to the general sentiment of humane and civilized mankind; and on the other hand that it should keep prepared, while scrupulously avoiding wrongdoing itself, to repel any wrong, and in exceptional cases to take action which in a more advanced stage of international relations would come under the head of the exercise of the international police. A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.
Page 9 - We now declare to respect and protect the security of the rights and of the property of Our people, and to secure to them the complete enjoyment of the same, within the extent of the provisions of the present Constitution and of the law.