I have a question about Imperial Japan

 
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So we all know in the 30's and into the 40's how territory hungry Japan was, and the atrocities they did while taking such land. I understand their logic was since they're not Japanese, they're 'below' them and all that.

But my question is how was human rights for the Japanese in mainland Japan during the Imperial era? Were they repressed? Normal? Mass suppression of freedom of speech like Hitler times? I understand the Meiji Constitution guaranteed things like freedom of speech, assembly, and religion, but idk if it was exactly still enforced when people like Tojo took rule.

I looked and can't really find any info on the treatment of their own citizens during that time.
Last Edit: February 05, 2016, 02:34:21 AM by Luciana


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AFAIK, they were basically indoctrinated into putting the emperor first before themselves, kind of like N. Koreans.

Evidently, the leadership didn't care much as japanese soldiers were to commit suicide before capture - never back down and all that.


 
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AFAIK, they were basically indoctrinated into putting the emperor first before themselves, kind of like N. Koreans.

Evidently, the leadership didn't care much as japanese soldiers were to commit suicide before capture - never back down and all that.
Japan could have done a lot more damage on the ground if their soldiers weren't so ready to do retarded banzai charges actually


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AFAIK, they were basically indoctrinated into putting the emperor first before themselves, kind of like N. Koreans.

Evidently, the leadership didn't care much as japanese soldiers were to commit suicide before capture - never back down and all that.
Japan could have done a lot more damage on the ground if their soldiers weren't so ready to do retarded banzai charges actually

And if their planes were more than man-operated missiles, too.


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From the 1880s to the 1920s there was an internal drive for participatory, parliamentary politics, causing the slippage of power from formal oligarchs to Diet politicians. There was a series of rice riots/mass demonstrations by the common folk in 1918; this drove the emperor to consent to a position as the "prime minister," essentially acting as the majority party president in the Lower House of their parliament; this trend continued until 1932. In the wake of the Meiji Restoration, as I'm sure you know, Japan underwent a significant period of industrialization, commercialization, and urbanization- the people who drive this industrialism are always subject to some abject misery, though many Japanese, especially in the commercial sector, were able to thrive under Japan's newfound regional dominance- Japan's growth fostered the growth of their middle class/wage earning urbanites (this new working class included women). This period of intense nation building fostered a sense of citizenship and nationalism among all the people of Japan. Young Japanese men increasingly embraced Western culture, especially Western lifestyles and pseudo-Western political views (the drive for participatory politics I mentioned earlier). Japan's new working class developed journals, newspapers, magazines, film industry; shopping districts, movie theatres, jazz clubs, dance halls all became popular among these working class people.

Basically, the common Japanese folk were treated the same as in any newly industrializing regional power in recent history. The poor were poor and their lives pretty much still sucked (I distinctly remember watching a video in class about how horrible the conditions for miners/factory workers were), the upper class enjoyed lavish luxury as always, but the emerging middle class/wage earning urbanites enjoyed a very comfortable lifestyle. I took all this information from my lecture notes, and could do some more thorough research if there's anything else you'd like to know.
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AFAIK, they were basically indoctrinated into putting the emperor first before themselves, kind of like N. Koreans.

Evidently, the leadership didn't care much as japanese soldiers were to commit suicide before capture - never back down and all that.
Japan could have done a lot more damage on the ground if their soldiers weren't so ready to do retarded banzai charges actually

And if their planes were more than man-operated missiles, too.

Their planes were operated missiles at that point primarily because they were running out of resources to build them.

So their solution was to build a barely flyable disposable bombs.


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