caa a22 4500 386389896 CHVBK 20180307112110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0026749X00010180 doi S0026749X00010180 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0026749X00010180 Steele M. William International Christian University From Custom to Right: The Politicization of the Village in Early Meiji Japan [Elektronische Daten] [M. William Steele] In 1874 Itagaki Taisuke and other critics of the newly established Meiji government submitted a petition demanding a popularly elected national assembly. This is said to be the origin of the Liberty and People's Rights Movement (jiyū minken undō). Around the same time a number of local political leaders intensified their campaign for the creation of village assemblies. Although the demand for local autonomy in the early Meiji period was both deep-felt and widespread, only a few scholars, notably Neil Waters, have diverted their attention from Itagaki and other political activists and thinkers at the center. An examination of Meiji local politics is nonetheless essential to understand Japan's modern political development. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/4(1989-10), 729-748 0026-749X 23:4<729 1989 23 ASS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00010180 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00010180 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Steele M. William International Christian University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/4(1989-10), 729-748 0026-749X 23:4<729 1989 23 ASS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge