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March 1898 Japanese general election

general election in Japan held in March 1898

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1195309 ↗
Source-derived summary

General elections were held in Japan on 15 March 1898.

Campaign

A total of 605 candidates contested the elections; the Liberal Party nominated the most with 233, Shimpotō had 174, Kokumin Kyōkai 52 and Yamashita Club 26. The remaining 118 candidates were independents.

Results

References

Robert A. Scalapino (Ed. by) Robert E. Ward (1973), Political Development in Modern Japan, United States: Princeton University Press.

Mahendra Prakash (2004), Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003, New Delhi: JNU[1].

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “March 1898 Japanese general election” as general election in Japan held in March 1898. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1973, 2004, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where March, Japanese and general can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as general election in Japan held in March 1898. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1195309. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1973, 2004 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “March 1898 Japanese general election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.