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This book provides an overview of about a hundred years from the eve of the arrival of the Perry Black Ships to the end of the Edo period through the Restoration period, the construction and maturation of the Meiji state, the Taisho period, the period of party cabinets in the pre-war Showa period through the period of national unity, and the end of the war and the occupation period. It focuses mainly on the structure and reality of the constitutional monarchy, the legislature, the legislative and executive organs such as political parties, cabinets and bureaucrats, and their interrelationship. It introduces in an easy-to-understand way how politics developed in modern Japan.