Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only since 1925 has Japan had what passes in the Empire for "universal manhood suffrage." Last week a few dainty Japanese feminists toddled about the larger cities exhorting men to "Vote, Please!" and wearing scarfs reading not "Votes for Women" but "Pure Election."
Up to last week there had never been a Japanese election in which the party favored by the Government failed to win. After ten years of this, popular apathy was such that in the present general election campaign many candidates rode out to rural constituencies to find the halls hired...
Emperor an Organ? Of the total of 466 Diet seats nearly all were contested by machine candidates of the two large and wealthy Japanese parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito. Many of these candidates neither knew nor cared what the issues, if any, were. This astounding state of affairs existed...
As for His Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, who knows that he is directly descended from the all-creating Sun Goddess as firmly as Japanese know anything, the Divine Sovereign had of course no concern with last week's election.
Since the result of the Japanese election last week was not going to matter much anyway, interest was all the keener in Kaijo Kumo Tooshi.