Word: rescript
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ascending the Tribune he delivered a masterful defense of his policies, and then, before the Opposition could reply, produced an Imperial rescript dissolving the Diet. By this stratagem Premier Tanaka secured the widest possible publicity for a speech which amounted to the electoral platform of his party, and at the same time checkmated the Opposition's desire to air its contrary platform in the Diet...
...Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill was passed by huge majorities in both Houses of the Imperial Japanese Diet. The Bill will be sent to the Prince Regent for the Royal Assent and promulgated by Imperial rescript which makes it the law of the land. Plans were being laid to declare Apr. 28 a national holiday in commemoration of the passage of the measure...
...House of Peers, the Prince read the Imperial Rescript opening the Diet. The principal points made in connection with the Government's policy...
...Korea was formally annexed to Japan and the name changed to Chosen. By an Imperial Rescript of 1919, Chosen became an integral part of the Japanese Empire, and the equality of Koreans with Japanese was declared...
Korea, with an area twice the size of the State of Minnesota, was annexed by the Japanese in 1910 after a military occupation extending from 1904. In 1919 by an Imperial Rescript Korea was made an integral part of the Japanese Empire with Koreans on the same footing as Japanese...