This essay will attempt to answer these questions by looking at the respective movements trying to attain democratic rule, and on the opposite side, the forces of authority that were used to contain them, as well as considering the political institutions and people of Japan itself. ... The first focus of this essay will be on the official side to Japanese democracy – the elected legislature. ... One example of their power is that the Prime Minister of the House of Representatives was essentially picked by the Genro, and they made sure that the will of nonparty elites was not trodden on by t...

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In this essay, I shall explain why I believe that the government should not be responsible for growing civil society, but instead should be responsible for providing an environment that allows civil society to grow independently. ... An example of how civil society can be effective in making the government re-think or clarify its policy is the protest led by civil society against the Population White Paper in February 2013. ...

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As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Yet a key question to ask when discussing the title of this essay is in whose eyes is the ruling regime legitimate? ... Should citizens be influenced unduly by a regime which represses dissenting speech and thought (as with the North Korean example), then although the processes of aggregate democracy may be respected, the outcome would not be democratically legitimate....

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