In the meantime, these very legislators ure demanding universal manhood suffrage. Japan's Elder Statesmen are not far wrong when they refuse to. admit that the Japanese people are not sufficiently. advanced politically to enjoy this lege and responsibility. Japan's parliamentary government is only. a make-believe. Her ministers are not responsible to the Diet, really it seems good they are not. A make-believe and a grandiose " debating, society Japan's Diet will continue to remain for some time longer, and the fault lies not with the conservatively-minded Elder Statemen who are the power behind the Throne, but rather with the electors, themselves and the men they have elected.
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