日本의 初期(1880年代) 政黨發展 = Early Development of Party Politics in Japan

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It is out of question today that the political parties play the keyrole of political process in the modern state. However, at the early stage of development, parties were denied and criticised by those who saw in them the bad seeds of disintegration and selfish persuit of interests. The trend was common in the east Asian countries as in the West. In Japan, during the Tokugawa period, the existence of factions or parties were more rigidly forbidden than in neighbouring countries. But after the Meiji Restoration, the feud among big Hans were prevalent and the mode of competition was gradually set up.
The most striking event was the Conquer-Korea Argument by which the rivaling forces arrayed themselves into pros and cons. From the very ground the party politics began to flourish in Japan. The author has pictured the most dramatic scenes of party development the founding and dissolution process of the Liberal Party and Progressive Party, and those pro-government parties which were organised in order to match them.
The party politics in Japan could be relatively easily established by two reasons. First, the party conflicts have clearly defined their moral obligations through justifiable issues such as Civil Rights and, opening the Diet. Second, the party politics were defended by scholars like Yamata Ichiro, whose descriptions of parties are astonishingly analytical, considering that they were written in 1880's. The author is sure that the positive development of party politics in Japan owed to such academic endeavour.