The Age of Visions and Arguments
Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan
Samenvatting
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 inaugurated a period of great change in Japan; it is seldom associated, however, with advances in civil and political rights. By studying parliamentarianism—the theories, arguments, and polemics marshaled in support of a representative system of government—Kim uncovers a much more complicated picture of this era.

