Japan was an imperial state, with an emperor that was thought of as a god. Mainly it was a Military Dictatorship.
as every country is having its own prison punishments japan is one of the most strict one's in the whole world.
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They had recently (1905) won a series of conflicts with Russia In 1902 they signed a treaty with Britain.
The most major thing that happened in the past to shape their political history how it is today was world war 2. After they lost world war 2 and surrendered to the U.S. the U.S. basically restricted and set up the Japanese political systems.
Japan had conflicts with China and Russia before World War one.
Japan
underwent political reform and economic expansion.
The Emperor ruled Japan.
See website: Japan
Communism .
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