SUFFRAGE IN JAPAN.
TOKYO, Maroh 1. After a week's stormy debate, the Universal Suffrage Bill was defeated by 243 votes to 147. Tha Japanese newspapers are almost unanimously bitter over the defeat of the Suffrage Bill by a straight party vote. The "Kokumin Shimbun," which is not usually emphatic, says: "Now the Government has clamped'down the .safety .valve -on the popular desire to purge >she Government of corruption, the question is by means can tbey root out this corruption which is based on bureaucracy and capitalism."
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17394, 3 March 1922, Page 8
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