“From Feudalism to Military dominance to Constitutional Democracy”, Japan’s history is an insightful roadmap of how she developed into the Japanese modern state that is apparent today. Examining Japan’s past experiences as a nation, five of the most crucial events of history are the Tokugawa Shogunate of 1603, the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japanese defeat in WWII, and MacArthur’s drafting of the new Japanese Constitution in 1946. These …showed first 75 words of 932 total…

…showed last 75 words of 932 total…highest organ of state power and the sole law-making organ of the State. It is especially surprising that a constitution imposed on the Japanese people by a foreign conqueror has lasted so long and become so popular in a country proud of its own legacy, but one of the main factors for the success is because it won broad support as it provided for the rapid economic recovery of a country devastated by the war.