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Minobe Tatsukichi Bibliography Minobe Tatsukichi was a Japanese constitutional scholar that was born in 1873 in Hyogo Prefecture of Japan. He graduated in the year 1897 from the Department of Law of Tokyo Imperial University, and later entered the Home Ministry. Around the year of 1902, he attained the job as the professor at Tokyo imperial University and lectured on the topic of constitutional and administrative law until he retired in the year 1934. Around the year of 1918, he was elected to the House of Counselors and during most of the period from 1899 to 1918, he studied the legal systems of Europe. Unlike many of the scholars at the time, he had a different interpretation of the Meiji Constitution. He supported the idea of the “Emperor as organ of the state” theory, which divided experts on constitutional law of Japan. Many of his theories were controversial and criticized by many militarists and his writing was banned until the end of WWII. Because of pressure that he was receiving throughout this period, he was forced to resign from the House of peers. Some of his writings were Outline of the Constitution in 1923, and the Principles of the Japanese Constitution in 1946. He died in the year of 1948, the end of WWII.

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