Also called: Inukai Ki
Party politician who led the movement to protect constitutional government and became prime minister (1931–1932) as Seiyūkai president; murdered in his residence by young naval officers in the May 15 Incident
Under the Taishō Emperor (1912–1926) a democratic current spread in Japan, as the movement to protect constitutional government and the idea of minponshugi pressed for party government and universal suffrage.
On 18 September 1931 Japan’s Kwantung Army blew up a section of the South Manchuria Railway at Liutiaohu near Shenyang, blamed Chinese troops, and launched an offensive that occupied most of Manchuria within six months.
On 15 May 1932 young naval officers stormed the prime minister’s residence and killed Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, bringing the era of party cabinets to an end.
Tokyo Imperial University professor whose minponshugi — government for the people and by their wishes, leaving aside where sovereignty lay — inspired Taishō democracy
President of the Seiyūkai who formed Japan’s first full party cabinet in 1918 after the Rice Riots — the “commoner prime minister”; assassinated at Tokyo Station in 1921
Son of the Fengtian warlord Zhang Zuolin who joined the Nationalist government after Japanese officers killed his father; in the 1936 Xi’an Incident he detained Chiang Kai-shek to demand resistance to Japan
Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party who unified China through the Northern Expedition and led the Nanjing government through the war with Japan; after losing the civil war he moved to Taiwan and ruled the Republic of China there
Third and fifth Governor-General of Korea, who proclaimed "cultural rule" after the March First Movement
The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle