Genrōin

Genrōin
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Chamber of Elders (元老院 Genrōin?) was a national assembly in early Meiji Japan, established after the Osaka Conference of 1875. It is also referred to as the Senate of Japan, Genrōin being the word used to describe the Roman Senate, and other western legislatures named after it.

The Freedom and People's Rights Movement and liberals among the Meiji oligarchy had withdrawn from the Meiji government over their efforts to establish a national assembly with increased representative democracy. The Osaka Conference of 1875 attempted to address this issue by the establishment of the Genrōin, a national assembly whose members (theoretically appointed directly by the Emperor) were drawn from the peerage, upper ranks of the bureaucracy and various scholars. The Genrōin was only quasi-legislative, in that it had the power to review proposed legislation and make recommendations, but did not have the power to actually initiate any legislation. As an assembly, it replaced the Chamber of the Left (左院 Sain?).

In 1876, the Genrōin was given the task of drafting a constitution for Japan, which it completed in 1880, only to have the draft rejected by Itō Hirobumi and Iwakura Tomomi as being too liberal.

The Genrōin was replaced by the Imperial Diet in 1890.

The Genrōin should not be confused with the Genrō, or elder statesmen. Most of the Genrō were members of the Genrōin, but not all members of the Genrōin were Genrō.

References

  • Banno, Junji. The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System. Routledge (1992). ISBN 0415004977
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  • Sims, Richard. Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0312239157

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