JAPANESE SUFFRAGE
AGITATION TO HAVE IT LIBERALISED
FIGHT FOR A CLEANER ADMINISTRATION
: Tokio, February'16. ' A (jreat agitation to'compel the Government to liberalise the present' narrow suffrage proposal is reaching : significant rtrid undreamed of strength. This ie partly the result of the volc&nio effects of Bolshevist ideas, and partly of- the spectacle of: the marvellous achievements in the enfranchisement, of the Western peoples. At present the voting power is entirely in the hands jofcommeroial men and landowners, and has led to extensive corruption. . : . :■ ' : ; •, ■
•The.majority of the people claim- the right to ten million votes, but the- intellectual classes arc forming influential societies to organise a huge petition asking for universal suffrage. The Japanese have every encouragement to persist in fighting for political liberty and cleaner administration, notably in connection with the relations with China.-"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7
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134JAPANESE SUFFRAGE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7
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