LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii TRANSLATOR'S NOTE ix ABOUT THE TRANSLATION xi FOREWORD xiii CHAPTER 1 The Birth of Constitutional Government in Japan 3 CHAPTER 2 In Preparation for a National Parliament 43 CHAPTER 3 Around the Time of the Security Ordinance 86 CHAPTER 4 The Early Days of the Parliament 118 CHAPTER 5 From the Matsukata-Okuma Government to the Okuma-Itagaki Government 155 CHAPTER 6 The Birth of the Seiyukai 188 CHAPTER 7 The Era of the Russo-Japanese War 224 CHAPTER 8 The Movement to Protect Constitutional Government 264 CHAPTER 9 The Okuma Cabinet Era 282 CHAPTER 10 The State of Domestic and Foreign Policy after the War 311 CHAPTER 11 The Suffrage Movement and Arms Control 330 CHAPTER 12 From Taishoto Showa 349 CHAPTER 13 Japan in the Storm 375 CHAPTER 14 The Pacific War and Its Aftermath 407 INDEX 439