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<![CDATA[Anime Forums - All Forums]]> http://animeforum.org/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:27:12 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[интимные знакомства в симферополе]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-567.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:45:43 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-567.html Знакомства секс волгоград бесплатно секс знакомства в орше
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секс знакомства в г мелеуз секс знакомства в приморско ахтарске]]> <![CDATA[секс знакомства в пинске]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-566.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:53:57 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-566.html Знакомства для секса в можге сайт знакомств для секса отзывы
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интимные знакомства в сыктывкаре винница секс знакомства]]> <![CDATA[NPC Characters]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-563.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:43:24 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-563.html <![CDATA[Sanyo Seiki]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-562.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:34:23 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-562.html ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[the lost art of the sword (William and Kisuki)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-555.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:00:32 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-555.html
through the streets of edo, two children run and play. a few years later, one child stands, bearing a wooden sword and the crest of a dojo and a master at the grave of the other child. another few years later, that child has grown, and mastered the sword art of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, and earned the name Battosai and is seen as a symbol of honor. later that year, the revolution of the Bakumatsu era comes. she leaves to fight for the rebels, her honor tarnished but still in tact. she earns the title Hitokiri Battosai. the bakumatsu ends, and she disappears. a rurouni, a wandering samurai appears. she vows never to kill again as her journey starts with a clean sword and a face no one knows and the name and title rurouni. this is where our story begins]]>
through the streets of edo, two children run and play. a few years later, one child stands, bearing a wooden sword and the crest of a dojo and a master at the grave of the other child. another few years later, that child has grown, and mastered the sword art of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, and earned the name Battosai and is seen as a symbol of honor. later that year, the revolution of the Bakumatsu era comes. she leaves to fight for the rebels, her honor tarnished but still in tact. she earns the title Hitokiri Battosai. the bakumatsu ends, and she disappears. a rurouni, a wandering samurai appears. she vows never to kill again as her journey starts with a clean sword and a face no one knows and the name and title rurouni. this is where our story begins]]> <![CDATA[Santesa's adventures (open)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-554.html Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:04:24 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-554.html
Santesa is hyper. Bouncing off of the stone walls. She's even driven her father to distraction. She's having fun!]]>
Santesa is hyper. Bouncing off of the stone walls. She's even driven her father to distraction. She's having fun!]]> <![CDATA[I need to tell you something.]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-553.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:58:26 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-553.html <![CDATA[Night of the bloodsuckers.(Anyone can join)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-552.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:57:29 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-552.html <![CDATA[Heart of a Lion(Any can join)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-551.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:54:29 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-551.html
They make camp. Johnny goes to sleep. Rosa goes over to him and begins to lick him like a kitten before going to sleep on top of him. He trys to get her off, but she is too big. He gives up and goes to sleep.]]>
They make camp. Johnny goes to sleep. Rosa goes over to him and begins to lick him like a kitten before going to sleep on top of him. He trys to get her off, but she is too big. He gives up and goes to sleep.]]> <![CDATA[Sebuku (open)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-550.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:56:47 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-550.html
Latest part of the Tokugawa era, comprised between the opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1853 and the Meiji Restoration in 1867.
The bakumatsu period is one of the most agitated and romanticized part of Japanese history. It is the age of the last samurai, of intense fighting between the pro-emperor ishin shishi from Satsuma and Choshu and the pro-shogunate Shinsengumi troops.

Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Restoration, in Japanese called 明治維新 meiji ishin, denotes events that started during the bakumatsu in the late Edo period and lasted until 1868, resulting in the restoration of imperial rule in Japan. It not only brought about political and economic change, but lead to a veritable social and cultural revolution of unprecedented dimensions in Japan. It is also considered the beginning of the Meiji Era.
The rebellion was initiated in 1866 by a group of samurai from the domains of Satsuma and Chōshū, who under their leaders Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi forged the Satchō Alliance (薩摩長州同盟 Satsuma-Chōshū dōmei) to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

The events were originally triggered by the arrival of Commodore Perry and his Black Ships in 1853, coercing the Tokugawa shogunate into opening Japan's ports to trade, thus demonstrating the immense superiority of the Western military power over Japan at the time. Other nations followed suit, causing nationalist unrest, under the slogan sonnō jōi (尊皇攘夷, "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians"). The aim of the rebellious samurai was consequently to restore the pride and power of Japan, by modernizing the country at all cost.

Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu (徳川慶喜) abdicated in favor the the 15 year-old Mutsuhito emperor, posthumously known as Meiji ("Enlightened Rule"). The capital was moved from Kyoto to Edo (江戸 Edo, lit. "estuary") and subsequently renamed Tokyo (東京 Tōkyō, "Eastern Capital").

The Meiji Restoration saw the abolition of feudalism and the fast modernization, industrialization and westernization of Japan, with many Japanese scholars and politicians (such as Ito Hirobumi or Saionji Kinmochi) dispatched to study the Western system and technologies in Europe and North America, and Westerners invited to Japan to help develop new industries, such beer brewing, the manufacturing of dairy products, and Japan's first modern railway system.

Meiji Era

The Meiji Era (明治時代 1867-1912) denotes the reign of the Meiji Emperor. During this time, Japan started her modernization and rose to world power status.

In 1867, 14-year-old Mutsuhito succeded his father, the Emperor Komei, taking the title Meiji, meaning "enlightened rule". The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended the 265-year-old feudalistic Tokugawa shogunate.

Considering that the economic structure and production of the country was roughly equivalent to Elizabethan era England, to become a world power in such a short amount of time is widely regarded as remarkable progress. This process was closely monitored and heavily subsidized by the Meiji government, enhancing the power of the great zaibatsu firms such as Mitsui and Mitsubishi.

Hand in hand, the zaibatsu and government guided the nation, always borrowing technology from the West. Japan gradually took control of much of Asia's market for manufactures, beginning with textiles. The economic structure became very mercantilistic, importing raw materials and exporting finished products - a reflection of Japan's relative poverty in raw materials.

Following her defeat of China in Korea in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Japan broke through as an international power with a victory against Russia in Manchuria (north-eastern China) in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Allied with Britain since 1902, Japan joined the Allies in World War I, seizing German-held territory in China and the Pacific in the process, but otherwise remained largely out of the conflict.

After the war, a weakened Europe left a greater share in international markets to the U.S. and Japan, which emerged greatly strengthened. Japanese competition made great inroads into hitherto European-dominated markets in Asia, not only in China, but even in European colonies like India and Indonesia, reflecting the development of the Meiji era.

The major institutional accomplishment after the Satsuma Rebellion was the start of the trend toward developing representative government. People who had been forced out or left out of the governing apparatus after the Meiji Restoration had witnessed or heard of the success of representative institutions in other countries of the world and applied greater pressure for a voice in government.

A major proponent of representative government was Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919), a powerful Tosa leader who had resigned from the Council of State over the Korean affair in 1873. Itagaki sought peaceful rather than rebellious means to gain a voice in government. He started a school and a movement aimed at establishing a constitutional monarchy and a legislative assembly. Itagaki and others wrote the Tosa Memorial in 1874 criticizing the unbridled power of the oligarchy and calling for the immediate establishment of representative government.

Dissatisfied with the pace of reform after having rejoined the Council of State in 1875, Itagaki organized his followers and other democratic proponents into the nationwide Aikokusha (Society of Patriots) to push for representative government in 1878. In 1881, in an action for which he is best known, Itagaki helped found the Jiyuto (Liberal Party), which favored French political doctrines.

In 1882 Okuma Shigenobu established the Rikken Kaishinto (Constitutional Progressive Party), which called for a British-style constitutional democracy. In response, government bureaucrats, local government officials, and other conservatives established the Rikken Teiseito (Imperial Rule Party), a progovernment party, in 1882. Numerous political demonstrations followed, some of them violent, resulting in further overnment restrictions. The restrictions hindered the political parties and led to divisions within and among them. The Jiyuto, which had opposed the Kaishinto, was disbanded in 1884, and Okuma resigned as Kaishinto president.

Government leaders, long preoccupied with violent threats to stability and the serious leadership split over the Korean affair, generally agreed that constitutional government should someday be established. The Choshu leader Kido Takayoshi had favored a constitutional form of government since before 1874, and several proposals for constitutional guarantees had been drafted. The oligarchy, however, while acknowledging the realities of political pressure, was determined to keep control. Thus, modest steps were taken.

The Osaka Conference in 1875 resulted in the reorganization of government with an independent judiciary and an appointed Council of Elders (Genronin) tasked with reviewing proposals for a legislature. The emperor declared that "constitutional government shall be established in gradual stages" as he ordered the Council of Elders to draft a constitution.

Three years later, the Conference of Prefectural Governors established elected prefectural assemblies. Although limited in their authority, these assemblies represented a move in the direction of representative government at the national level, and by 1880 assemblies also had been formed in villages and towns. In 1880 delegates from twenty-four prefectures held a national convention to establish the Kokkai Kisei Domei (League for Establishing a National Assembly).

Although the government was not opposed to parliamentary rule, confronted with the drive for "people's rights", it continued to try to control the political situation. New laws in 1875 prohibited press criticism of the government or discussion of national laws. The Public Assembly Law (1880) severely limited public gatherings by disallowing attendance by civil servants and requiring police permission for all meetings.

Within the ruling circle, however, and despite the conservative approach of the leadership, Okuma continued as a lone advocate of British-style government, a government with political parties and a cabinet organized by the majority party, answerable to the national assembly. He called for elections to be held by 1882 and for a national assembly to be convened by 1883; in doing so, he precipitated apolitical crisis that ended with an 1881 imperial rescript declaring the establishment of a national assembly in 1890 and dismissing Okuma.

Rejecting the British model, Iwakura and other conservatives borrowed heavily from the Prussian constitutional system. One of the Meiji oligarchy, Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909), a Choshu native long involved in government affairs, was charged with drafting Japan's constitution. He led a Constitutional Study Mission abroad in 1882, spending most of his time in Germany. He rejected the United States Constitution as "too liberal" and the British system as too unwieldy and having a parliament with too much control over the monarchy; the French and Spanish models were rejected as tending toward despotism.

On its return, one of the first acts of the government was to establish new ranks for the nobility. Five hundred persons from the old court nobility, former daimyo, and samurai who had provided valuable service to the emperor were organized in five ranks: prince, marquis, count, viscount, and baron.

Ito was put in charge of the new Bureau for Investigation of Constitutional Systems in 1884, and the Council of State was replaced in 1885 with a cabinet headed by Ito as prime minister. The positions of chancellor, minister of the left, and minister of the right, which had existed since the 7th century as advisory positions to the emperor, were all abolished. In their place, the Privy Council was established in 1888 to evaluate the forthcoming constitution and to advise the emperor.

To further strengthen the authority of the state, the Supreme War Council was established under the leadership of Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922), a Choshu native who has been credited with the founding of the modern Japanese army and was to become the first constitutional prime minister. The Supreme War Council developed a German-style general staff system with a chief of staff who had direct access to the emperor and who could operate independently of the army minister and civilian officials.

When finally granted by the emperor as a sign of his sharing his authority and giving rights and liberties to his subjects, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan (the Meiji Constitution) provided for the Imperial Diet (Teikoku Gikai), composed of a popularly elected House of Representatives with a very limited franchise of male citizens who paid 15 in national taxes, about 1 percent of the population, and the House of Peers, composed of nobility and imperial appointees; and a cabinet responsible to the emperor and independent of the legislature. The Diet could approve government legislation and initiate laws, make representations to the government, and submit petitions to the emperor. Nevertheless, in spite of these institutional changes, sovereignty still resided in the emperor on the basis of his divine ancestry.

The new constitution specified a form of government that was still authoritarian in character, with the emperor holding the ultimate power and only minimal concessions made to popular rights and parliamentary mechanisms. Party participation was recognized as part of the political process. The Meiji Constitution was to last as the fundamental law until 1947.

In the early years of constitutional government, the strengths and weaknesses of the Meiji Constitution were revealed. A small clique of Satsuma and Choshu elite continued to rule Japan, becoming institutionalized as an extraconstitutional body of genro (elder statesmen). Collectively, the genro made decisions reserved for the emperor, and the genro, not the emperor, controlled the government politically.

Throughout the period, however, political problems were usually solved through compromise, and political parties gradually increased their power over the government and held an ever larger role in the political process as a result. Between 1891 and 1895, Ito served as prime minister with a cabinet composed mostly of genro who wanted to establish a government party to control the House of Representatives. Although not fully realized, the trend toward party politics was well established.

Japan emerged from the Tokugawa-Meiji transition as the first Asian industrialized nation. Domestic commercial activities and limited foreign trade had met the demands for material culture in the Tokugawa period, but the modernized Meiji era had radically different requirements. From the onset, the Meiji rulers embraced the concept of a market economy and adopted British and North American forms of free enterprise capitalism. The private sector-- in a nation blessed with an abundance of aggressive entrepreneurs-- welcomed such change.

Economic reforms included a unified modern currency based on the yen, banking, commercial and tax laws, stock exchanges, and a communications network. Establishment of a modern institutional framework conducive to an advanced capitalist economy took time but was completed by the 1890s. By this time, the government had largely relinquished direct control of the modernization process, primarily for budgetary reasons.

Many of the former daimyo, whose pensions had been paid in a lump sum, benefited greatly through investments they made in emerging industries. Those who had been informally involved in foreign trade before the Meiji Restoration also flourished. Old bakufu-serving firms that clung to their traditional ways failed in the new business environment.

The government was initially involved in economic modernization, providing a number of "model factories" to facilitate the transition to the modern period. After the first twenty years of the Meiji period, the industrial economy expanded rapidly until about 1920 with inputs of advanced Western technology and large private investments. Stimulated by wars and through cautious economic planning, Japan emerged from World War I as a major industrial nation.

After the death of the Meiji Emperor in 1912, the Taisho Emperor took the throne, thus beginning the Taisho Period.

(Info over. You don't have to know everything above,this is just some basic information.)

It is the eleventh year of the Meiji restoration. Kisuki, odd hope, sheathed her sakabato, the heads of Mount Fuji flowers lie in a circle around her. She has cut them off with her backwards blade.]]>
Latest part of the Tokugawa era, comprised between the opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1853 and the Meiji Restoration in 1867.
The bakumatsu period is one of the most agitated and romanticized part of Japanese history. It is the age of the last samurai, of intense fighting between the pro-emperor ishin shishi from Satsuma and Choshu and the pro-shogunate Shinsengumi troops.

Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Restoration, in Japanese called 明治維新 meiji ishin, denotes events that started during the bakumatsu in the late Edo period and lasted until 1868, resulting in the restoration of imperial rule in Japan. It not only brought about political and economic change, but lead to a veritable social and cultural revolution of unprecedented dimensions in Japan. It is also considered the beginning of the Meiji Era.
The rebellion was initiated in 1866 by a group of samurai from the domains of Satsuma and Chōshū, who under their leaders Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi forged the Satchō Alliance (薩摩長州同盟 Satsuma-Chōshū dōmei) to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

The events were originally triggered by the arrival of Commodore Perry and his Black Ships in 1853, coercing the Tokugawa shogunate into opening Japan's ports to trade, thus demonstrating the immense superiority of the Western military power over Japan at the time. Other nations followed suit, causing nationalist unrest, under the slogan sonnō jōi (尊皇攘夷, "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians"). The aim of the rebellious samurai was consequently to restore the pride and power of Japan, by modernizing the country at all cost.

Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu (徳川慶喜) abdicated in favor the the 15 year-old Mutsuhito emperor, posthumously known as Meiji ("Enlightened Rule"). The capital was moved from Kyoto to Edo (江戸 Edo, lit. "estuary") and subsequently renamed Tokyo (東京 Tōkyō, "Eastern Capital").

The Meiji Restoration saw the abolition of feudalism and the fast modernization, industrialization and westernization of Japan, with many Japanese scholars and politicians (such as Ito Hirobumi or Saionji Kinmochi) dispatched to study the Western system and technologies in Europe and North America, and Westerners invited to Japan to help develop new industries, such beer brewing, the manufacturing of dairy products, and Japan's first modern railway system.

Meiji Era

The Meiji Era (明治時代 1867-1912) denotes the reign of the Meiji Emperor. During this time, Japan started her modernization and rose to world power status.

In 1867, 14-year-old Mutsuhito succeded his father, the Emperor Komei, taking the title Meiji, meaning "enlightened rule". The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended the 265-year-old feudalistic Tokugawa shogunate.

Considering that the economic structure and production of the country was roughly equivalent to Elizabethan era England, to become a world power in such a short amount of time is widely regarded as remarkable progress. This process was closely monitored and heavily subsidized by the Meiji government, enhancing the power of the great zaibatsu firms such as Mitsui and Mitsubishi.

Hand in hand, the zaibatsu and government guided the nation, always borrowing technology from the West. Japan gradually took control of much of Asia's market for manufactures, beginning with textiles. The economic structure became very mercantilistic, importing raw materials and exporting finished products - a reflection of Japan's relative poverty in raw materials.

Following her defeat of China in Korea in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Japan broke through as an international power with a victory against Russia in Manchuria (north-eastern China) in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Allied with Britain since 1902, Japan joined the Allies in World War I, seizing German-held territory in China and the Pacific in the process, but otherwise remained largely out of the conflict.

After the war, a weakened Europe left a greater share in international markets to the U.S. and Japan, which emerged greatly strengthened. Japanese competition made great inroads into hitherto European-dominated markets in Asia, not only in China, but even in European colonies like India and Indonesia, reflecting the development of the Meiji era.

The major institutional accomplishment after the Satsuma Rebellion was the start of the trend toward developing representative government. People who had been forced out or left out of the governing apparatus after the Meiji Restoration had witnessed or heard of the success of representative institutions in other countries of the world and applied greater pressure for a voice in government.

A major proponent of representative government was Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919), a powerful Tosa leader who had resigned from the Council of State over the Korean affair in 1873. Itagaki sought peaceful rather than rebellious means to gain a voice in government. He started a school and a movement aimed at establishing a constitutional monarchy and a legislative assembly. Itagaki and others wrote the Tosa Memorial in 1874 criticizing the unbridled power of the oligarchy and calling for the immediate establishment of representative government.

Dissatisfied with the pace of reform after having rejoined the Council of State in 1875, Itagaki organized his followers and other democratic proponents into the nationwide Aikokusha (Society of Patriots) to push for representative government in 1878. In 1881, in an action for which he is best known, Itagaki helped found the Jiyuto (Liberal Party), which favored French political doctrines.

In 1882 Okuma Shigenobu established the Rikken Kaishinto (Constitutional Progressive Party), which called for a British-style constitutional democracy. In response, government bureaucrats, local government officials, and other conservatives established the Rikken Teiseito (Imperial Rule Party), a progovernment party, in 1882. Numerous political demonstrations followed, some of them violent, resulting in further overnment restrictions. The restrictions hindered the political parties and led to divisions within and among them. The Jiyuto, which had opposed the Kaishinto, was disbanded in 1884, and Okuma resigned as Kaishinto president.

Government leaders, long preoccupied with violent threats to stability and the serious leadership split over the Korean affair, generally agreed that constitutional government should someday be established. The Choshu leader Kido Takayoshi had favored a constitutional form of government since before 1874, and several proposals for constitutional guarantees had been drafted. The oligarchy, however, while acknowledging the realities of political pressure, was determined to keep control. Thus, modest steps were taken.

The Osaka Conference in 1875 resulted in the reorganization of government with an independent judiciary and an appointed Council of Elders (Genronin) tasked with reviewing proposals for a legislature. The emperor declared that "constitutional government shall be established in gradual stages" as he ordered the Council of Elders to draft a constitution.

Three years later, the Conference of Prefectural Governors established elected prefectural assemblies. Although limited in their authority, these assemblies represented a move in the direction of representative government at the national level, and by 1880 assemblies also had been formed in villages and towns. In 1880 delegates from twenty-four prefectures held a national convention to establish the Kokkai Kisei Domei (League for Establishing a National Assembly).

Although the government was not opposed to parliamentary rule, confronted with the drive for "people's rights", it continued to try to control the political situation. New laws in 1875 prohibited press criticism of the government or discussion of national laws. The Public Assembly Law (1880) severely limited public gatherings by disallowing attendance by civil servants and requiring police permission for all meetings.

Within the ruling circle, however, and despite the conservative approach of the leadership, Okuma continued as a lone advocate of British-style government, a government with political parties and a cabinet organized by the majority party, answerable to the national assembly. He called for elections to be held by 1882 and for a national assembly to be convened by 1883; in doing so, he precipitated apolitical crisis that ended with an 1881 imperial rescript declaring the establishment of a national assembly in 1890 and dismissing Okuma.

Rejecting the British model, Iwakura and other conservatives borrowed heavily from the Prussian constitutional system. One of the Meiji oligarchy, Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909), a Choshu native long involved in government affairs, was charged with drafting Japan's constitution. He led a Constitutional Study Mission abroad in 1882, spending most of his time in Germany. He rejected the United States Constitution as "too liberal" and the British system as too unwieldy and having a parliament with too much control over the monarchy; the French and Spanish models were rejected as tending toward despotism.

On its return, one of the first acts of the government was to establish new ranks for the nobility. Five hundred persons from the old court nobility, former daimyo, and samurai who had provided valuable service to the emperor were organized in five ranks: prince, marquis, count, viscount, and baron.

Ito was put in charge of the new Bureau for Investigation of Constitutional Systems in 1884, and the Council of State was replaced in 1885 with a cabinet headed by Ito as prime minister. The positions of chancellor, minister of the left, and minister of the right, which had existed since the 7th century as advisory positions to the emperor, were all abolished. In their place, the Privy Council was established in 1888 to evaluate the forthcoming constitution and to advise the emperor.

To further strengthen the authority of the state, the Supreme War Council was established under the leadership of Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922), a Choshu native who has been credited with the founding of the modern Japanese army and was to become the first constitutional prime minister. The Supreme War Council developed a German-style general staff system with a chief of staff who had direct access to the emperor and who could operate independently of the army minister and civilian officials.

When finally granted by the emperor as a sign of his sharing his authority and giving rights and liberties to his subjects, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan (the Meiji Constitution) provided for the Imperial Diet (Teikoku Gikai), composed of a popularly elected House of Representatives with a very limited franchise of male citizens who paid 15 in national taxes, about 1 percent of the population, and the House of Peers, composed of nobility and imperial appointees; and a cabinet responsible to the emperor and independent of the legislature. The Diet could approve government legislation and initiate laws, make representations to the government, and submit petitions to the emperor. Nevertheless, in spite of these institutional changes, sovereignty still resided in the emperor on the basis of his divine ancestry.

The new constitution specified a form of government that was still authoritarian in character, with the emperor holding the ultimate power and only minimal concessions made to popular rights and parliamentary mechanisms. Party participation was recognized as part of the political process. The Meiji Constitution was to last as the fundamental law until 1947.

In the early years of constitutional government, the strengths and weaknesses of the Meiji Constitution were revealed. A small clique of Satsuma and Choshu elite continued to rule Japan, becoming institutionalized as an extraconstitutional body of genro (elder statesmen). Collectively, the genro made decisions reserved for the emperor, and the genro, not the emperor, controlled the government politically.

Throughout the period, however, political problems were usually solved through compromise, and political parties gradually increased their power over the government and held an ever larger role in the political process as a result. Between 1891 and 1895, Ito served as prime minister with a cabinet composed mostly of genro who wanted to establish a government party to control the House of Representatives. Although not fully realized, the trend toward party politics was well established.

Japan emerged from the Tokugawa-Meiji transition as the first Asian industrialized nation. Domestic commercial activities and limited foreign trade had met the demands for material culture in the Tokugawa period, but the modernized Meiji era had radically different requirements. From the onset, the Meiji rulers embraced the concept of a market economy and adopted British and North American forms of free enterprise capitalism. The private sector-- in a nation blessed with an abundance of aggressive entrepreneurs-- welcomed such change.

Economic reforms included a unified modern currency based on the yen, banking, commercial and tax laws, stock exchanges, and a communications network. Establishment of a modern institutional framework conducive to an advanced capitalist economy took time but was completed by the 1890s. By this time, the government had largely relinquished direct control of the modernization process, primarily for budgetary reasons.

Many of the former daimyo, whose pensions had been paid in a lump sum, benefited greatly through investments they made in emerging industries. Those who had been informally involved in foreign trade before the Meiji Restoration also flourished. Old bakufu-serving firms that clung to their traditional ways failed in the new business environment.

The government was initially involved in economic modernization, providing a number of "model factories" to facilitate the transition to the modern period. After the first twenty years of the Meiji period, the industrial economy expanded rapidly until about 1920 with inputs of advanced Western technology and large private investments. Stimulated by wars and through cautious economic planning, Japan emerged from World War I as a major industrial nation.

After the death of the Meiji Emperor in 1912, the Taisho Emperor took the throne, thus beginning the Taisho Period.

(Info over. You don't have to know everything above,this is just some basic information.)

It is the eleventh year of the Meiji restoration. Kisuki, odd hope, sheathed her sakabato, the heads of Mount Fuji flowers lie in a circle around her. She has cut them off with her backwards blade.]]> <![CDATA[My Approved Characters]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-549.html Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:36:12 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-549.html <![CDATA[Darkness Unleashed(Everybody can join)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-548.html Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:56:21 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-548.html <![CDATA[Welcome to free classifieds round the world]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-547.html Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:39:30 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-547.html http://boardfreeads.com/ and place ads for free.]]> http://boardfreeads.com/ and place ads for free.]]> <![CDATA[Megaupload case]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-546.html Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:32:57 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-546.html

Quote:“This initiative is a starting point for legitimate Iinternet users to help defend themselves from the legal abuses promoted by those wishing to aggressively lock away cultural materials for their own financial gain,” says the group. They add that the FBI has caused “incalculable damage” by making material hosted on the site’s servers unavailable and, for now, users — both paying and non — are unsure if they will ever have their files recovered.

Source]]>

Quote:“This initiative is a starting point for legitimate Iinternet users to help defend themselves from the legal abuses promoted by those wishing to aggressively lock away cultural materials for their own financial gain,” says the group. They add that the FBI has caused “incalculable damage” by making material hosted on the site’s servers unavailable and, for now, users — both paying and non — are unsure if they will ever have their files recovered.

Source]]> <![CDATA[BloodRose (Cecilia Rose and William Wolfheart Only)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-545.html Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:23:00 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-545.html "no...and the Festival is just in a few days..I've sent message after message but I still have not heard anything from them. I do intend to send Kalin along with a few others to go and make sure they are alright. You're free to stay here....or go with them. I do not mind your company...it's been...."
"Lonely? I know the feeling William. It's Alright. Now come....we should make plans for the Feast." She said with a smile.
"very well...let us go and make preparations." I said and we turned and headed back to the palace.

Riorik had greeted us and I pet him as he licked my hand and I fed him as well while looking around at the servants and maids getting everything ready. Salene had gone off to find Elaina and help her prepare for tonight's feast. Riorik walked alongside me as I headed to my personal library to sit and read.

*****

Somewhere in the Dark Realm Lies a Castle full of rage and Darkness and hatred, Vorin was pacing around waiting for orders from His Lord who ultimately Commanded the Armies that Vorin Lead in battle. He was soon Summoned and the Great Black Doors opened.
"VORIN!!!!" The Lord Yelled Angrily.
"Yes my lord...forgive me for being late...I was um.."
"HOW DARE YOU DEFY MY ORDERS!!! You attacked the Dragonian homeland without Permission...now the Grand Council is on our heads...specially mine." HE said his mood changed.
"my lord..isn't it what you wanted? They stood no chance against our Demon Horde, Even now the Horde is marching and spreading out to surround Kaveria....I have ordered the Great forests not to be burned...No Innocent will be harmed my lord. The Great City is in our Grasp....let us take the chance and the Great City while their defenses are down. They hold a festival my lord." Vorin answered
"Yes...I know and I had been thinking of going and attending. I wished to honor the peace William brought to this world but now how can I go when that peace is gone Vorin... because you destroyed any hope of that...I have no choice but to banish you and place you in Exile....You are stripped of your rank and powers..from this day forth you are no longer part of us...take him away." The Lord ordered, "And recall the troops Immediately also send word to William that a Horde is marching for Kaveria and also tell him I wish to meet with him to make negotiations." The guards nodded taking Vorin away and went to work getting a message to me to warn me.

****

All across the kingdoms the Horde marched restraining themselves of killing anyone as they marched through only leaving men and troops behind to keep order and control in the cities and villages. They surrounded Kaveria and it wasn't till a soldier seeing a demon and rushed drawing his sword and struck it down killing it. The Horde began to rampage and burn and kill and it was too late for people had fled to the City as their villages burned. Why they had marched I couldn't tell or know as I got a message of their arrival and more of their burning and killing innocents and villages, Odering a call to arms the Festival was canceled as men and Soldiers flocked to the Walls to Defend the City.]]> "no...and the Festival is just in a few days..I've sent message after message but I still have not heard anything from them. I do intend to send Kalin along with a few others to go and make sure they are alright. You're free to stay here....or go with them. I do not mind your company...it's been...."
"Lonely? I know the feeling William. It's Alright. Now come....we should make plans for the Feast." She said with a smile.
"very well...let us go and make preparations." I said and we turned and headed back to the palace.

Riorik had greeted us and I pet him as he licked my hand and I fed him as well while looking around at the servants and maids getting everything ready. Salene had gone off to find Elaina and help her prepare for tonight's feast. Riorik walked alongside me as I headed to my personal library to sit and read.

*****

Somewhere in the Dark Realm Lies a Castle full of rage and Darkness and hatred, Vorin was pacing around waiting for orders from His Lord who ultimately Commanded the Armies that Vorin Lead in battle. He was soon Summoned and the Great Black Doors opened.
"VORIN!!!!" The Lord Yelled Angrily.
"Yes my lord...forgive me for being late...I was um.."
"HOW DARE YOU DEFY MY ORDERS!!! You attacked the Dragonian homeland without Permission...now the Grand Council is on our heads...specially mine." HE said his mood changed.
"my lord..isn't it what you wanted? They stood no chance against our Demon Horde, Even now the Horde is marching and spreading out to surround Kaveria....I have ordered the Great forests not to be burned...No Innocent will be harmed my lord. The Great City is in our Grasp....let us take the chance and the Great City while their defenses are down. They hold a festival my lord." Vorin answered
"Yes...I know and I had been thinking of going and attending. I wished to honor the peace William brought to this world but now how can I go when that peace is gone Vorin... because you destroyed any hope of that...I have no choice but to banish you and place you in Exile....You are stripped of your rank and powers..from this day forth you are no longer part of us...take him away." The Lord ordered, "And recall the troops Immediately also send word to William that a Horde is marching for Kaveria and also tell him I wish to meet with him to make negotiations." The guards nodded taking Vorin away and went to work getting a message to me to warn me.

****

All across the kingdoms the Horde marched restraining themselves of killing anyone as they marched through only leaving men and troops behind to keep order and control in the cities and villages. They surrounded Kaveria and it wasn't till a soldier seeing a demon and rushed drawing his sword and struck it down killing it. The Horde began to rampage and burn and kill and it was too late for people had fled to the City as their villages burned. Why they had marched I couldn't tell or know as I got a message of their arrival and more of their burning and killing innocents and villages, Odering a call to arms the Festival was canceled as men and Soldiers flocked to the Walls to Defend the City.]]> <![CDATA[Prison of Dematri (rp for aquario and Cecilia Rose only)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-544.html Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:54:59 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-544.html
But, what they don't realize is that the person who has been there since the prison started and the only one to have escaped but was captured and brought back, is planning to form a group. A group to fight them and kill them. A group to escape and be Free once and for all. This persons name is Cecilia Rose, the princess of Demons. She then began to put the word out around the prison, for any prisoner who wants out of her and way from the experiments to come to her cell for the meeting that is at 5:00 today.

It is nearing 5 o'clock and she is waiting to see who dares join her.]]>
But, what they don't realize is that the person who has been there since the prison started and the only one to have escaped but was captured and brought back, is planning to form a group. A group to fight them and kill them. A group to escape and be Free once and for all. This persons name is Cecilia Rose, the princess of Demons. She then began to put the word out around the prison, for any prisoner who wants out of her and way from the experiments to come to her cell for the meeting that is at 5:00 today.

It is nearing 5 o'clock and she is waiting to see who dares join her.]]> <![CDATA[Demon Within (for Revan Marek and Cecilia Rose only)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-543.html Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:24:16 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-543.html
She then got up and walked out of the cell heading to the cell of her friends. She was in a cell by herself because she was seen as too dangerous to have a roommate. She actually preferred to be in her cell by herself. When she got to their cell she said, "hey guys what you up to?" She said with a sly grin on her face.]]>
She then got up and walked out of the cell heading to the cell of her friends. She was in a cell by herself because she was seen as too dangerous to have a roommate. She actually preferred to be in her cell by herself. When she got to their cell she said, "hey guys what you up to?" She said with a sly grin on her face.]]> <![CDATA[ACTA]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-541.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:01:14 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-541.html
For those who don't know, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA. Basically, this is an international anti-piracy/counterfeiting law. It is designed to protect "intellectual property" such as copyrights, patents, etc. on a more or less global level. Why it has not been given as drastic of a show as SOPA and PIPA were, I can only guess.

The international "trade agreement" has been signed by the following:
Oct. 11, 2011: United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea
Jan. 26, 2011: European Union and 22 Member States (without Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Netherlands and Slovakia which are expected to sign later)

It remains open for new signatures until March 31, 2013. Regardless of what might be thought about any of a long list of nasty things the agreement is supposed to help stop, the method through which it has been written and signed is reprehensible.

Kader Arif Wrote:I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.

As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens' legitimate demands.

Source

Regardless of what the agreement is actually intended to do, the methods being used and the statement above seem to show that there is a total disregard for the public and their wishes throughout the governments of the world.]]>
For those who don't know, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA. Basically, this is an international anti-piracy/counterfeiting law. It is designed to protect "intellectual property" such as copyrights, patents, etc. on a more or less global level. Why it has not been given as drastic of a show as SOPA and PIPA were, I can only guess.

The international "trade agreement" has been signed by the following:
Oct. 11, 2011: United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea
Jan. 26, 2011: European Union and 22 Member States (without Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Netherlands and Slovakia which are expected to sign later)

It remains open for new signatures until March 31, 2013. Regardless of what might be thought about any of a long list of nasty things the agreement is supposed to help stop, the method through which it has been written and signed is reprehensible.

Kader Arif Wrote:I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.

As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens' legitimate demands.

Source

Regardless of what the agreement is actually intended to do, the methods being used and the statement above seem to show that there is a total disregard for the public and their wishes throughout the governments of the world.]]> <![CDATA[Begining of darkness.(All can join)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-540.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:54:32 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-540.html <![CDATA[Endless sorrow(any can join)]]> http://animeforum.org/thread-537.html Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:29:13 +0000 http://animeforum.org/thread-537.html A 4 year old boy is crying. His mother and father was dead. He is alone. No one has cared about him. A young man walks by and stops when he sees the boy. He walks to him and says "what's the matter?" The man ask. The boy says "my mother and father is dead." "My name is Luke Baron. what is yours?" The boy says "Revan Marek." Luke smiles and says "how about we get you inside." Revan follows Luke. years later the boy is 15. He is training to use a sword by Luke. He runs into a girl. She is also 15. He says "Sorry." She smiles and says "It's ok. what's your name?" He says "Revan Marek. Yours?" She says "Sarah Smith." Some more years pass. He is 20. He fights the Dark Lord and loses. The Dark Lord took him that he is his uncle and the one that killed his parents."

Flashback ends:
Revan is siting with his head in his hand. He remembers everything in his past. Every joy and happiness. Every sorrow. he is in a dark woods. and alone.]]> A 4 year old boy is crying. His mother and father was dead. He is alone. No one has cared about him. A young man walks by and stops when he sees the boy. He walks to him and says "what's the matter?" The man ask. The boy says "my mother and father is dead." "My name is Luke Baron. what is yours?" The boy says "Revan Marek." Luke smiles and says "how about we get you inside." Revan follows Luke. years later the boy is 15. He is training to use a sword by Luke. He runs into a girl. She is also 15. He says "Sorry." She smiles and says "It's ok. what's your name?" He says "Revan Marek. Yours?" She says "Sarah Smith." Some more years pass. He is 20. He fights the Dark Lord and loses. The Dark Lord took him that he is his uncle and the one that killed his parents."

Flashback ends:
Revan is siting with his head in his hand. He remembers everything in his past. Every joy and happiness. Every sorrow. he is in a dark woods. and alone.]]>