1. At the close of World War ll, Allied leaders-
Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Chiang
Kai-sheck issued the Potsdam Declaration
which demanded Japan's unconditional
surrender.
They also handed Japan a totally new
constitution.
In this presentation I want to show Japan's
government before the Posts dam Declaration
and after, and compare the difference.
2. The constitution of Japan
before World War ll
● The constitution of Japan before ● (the first picture on the left is of the Meiji
World War ll was called the constitution. The others are pictures I liked of
different emperors . . . except the
“Meiji constitution.” It was fish, he was only a duke or
formed in 1890 and was a something)
supreme and absolute power. The
Emperor of Japan was an active
ruler and wielded considerable
political power over foreign
policy and diplomacy, which was
shared with an elected Diet.
●
3. The Diet
● The Diet, before World War ll, ● The “Diet” of Japan . .
was a bicameral(of, pertaining to, .wait a second! Wrong
consisting of two legislative Diet!
houses) It had a lower house, ●
called the House of
●
●
Representatives, and an upper ●
house, called the House of ●
Councilors. They mainly helped ●
make laws and approved national ● Here
budget every year.
● we go,
Diet of
Japan!
4. Post World War ll
● The current Constitution of Japan
was enacted on May 3, 1947 as a
● The Post war constitution . . .
postwar Japan."The Japanese in Japanese.
government shall remove all
obstacles to the revival and
strengthening of democratic
tendencies among the Japanese
people freedom of speech, of
religion, and of thought, as well
as respect for the fundamental
human rights shall be
established."
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5. Ratifying
● The Prime minister of
Japan, Shidehara Kiji and
many others were
extremely reluctant to
take such a drastic step to
replace the 1989 Meiji
Constitution, with a more
“liberal” government
6. The Parliamentary system
● Supreme Allied Douglass ● Douglas MacArthur
MacAuthor and his staff
mostly enacted Japan's
new constitution, which
was the British model of
a Parliamentary
government, which was
more like the Meiji
Constitution.
7. The Parliamentary model
● The Parliamentary
constitution granted universal
suffrage stripped Empire
Hirohito of all but symbolic
power, stipulated a bill of
rights, abolished peerage( the
rank or dignity of a peer
because of linage), and
outlawed Japan's right to
proclaim war.
8. More on Parliamentary
Constitution
● The Parliamentary constitution
is a system of democratic
government in which the
ministers of the Executive
Branch derive legitimacy from
and are accountable to a
legislature or parliament, thus
legislator and executive
branches interact. 2 branches to
the legislative branches.
