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On December 9th, 1867 the Imperial Court declared that it restored the monarchical legislation system of State rejecting the old, conservative and temporizing Shogunate system. On September 8th, 1868 Tenno （the Emperor） changed the name of era from Keiou to Meiji in accordance with the imperial succession. On the same day the Meiji Government started its office.Kowashi got a seat in the Ministry of Justice in December 1871 （4th year of Meiji）, about four years behind from the start of Meiji. When Tenno decided that the monarchical regime of Tenno should be backed with constitutional legislation system, Kowashi was ready to take initiative to pioneer to refer to various histories of constitutional legislation system in Europe.When Tenno proclaimed in 1881 （the 14th year of Meiji） that Japan must initiate The Diet in 1890 （it meant that the Constitution must be enacted in 1889）, the office recognized Kowashi’s initiatives as leadership to complete the policy. He worked at will to achieve the task on schedule under acceptance of Hirobumi Itoh, his superior official who was ordered to be in charge of enactment of the Constitution, and with cooperation of a company.This dissertation attempts to know what Constitution Kowashi wanted, and how he could successfully complete the imperial policy at first through initiatives and later through leadership. |
