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who exercised almost absolute
power in their several Provinces.
Mass
This feudal despotism had long- been borne with impatience by the
of the Japanese people, and finally swept away by the Revolution of 1868, which restored the Mikado to his ancient.
was
Authority. The powers and privileges of the feudal Barone then disappeared in Japan as completely Europe; but a revived
as in
more
than
five
aristocraeu of hundred (500) families has been
recently
the
recently created from among leading Daimyo and Kuge, for
· Court Nobles) together with the- most able and influential
Régime...
funstionaries of the new Japan has now her trinees, Dukes, Marquises, Counts, and Barons, — who will form the Second Chamber of.
the National Legislature,
which it is proposed to convoke for the first time in 1890. There
will also be an elected Chamber-
of Representatives of the people.
At present, the central Imperial
-Government
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