Administrative Function Of Ministry Of Home Affairs In Early Meiji Japan

Ministry of Home Affairs is important domestic affairs in the history of Japan. TheInternal Affairs is in charge of many businesses, including Productive consumption, culturalmanagement, People lives and such aspect. Ministry of Home Affairs is in the administrationof the central position and possesses very strong execution in central and local governments.This paper mainly from three aspects of the formation of the Ministry of Home Affairs,the specific administrative as well as the relationship with the Meiji state to analyzeAdministrative Function of Ministry of Home Affairs in Early Meiji.The first part is the formation of the Ministry of Home Affairs. After The MeijiRestoration, the Government was eager to change the backward situation. Iwakura Embassycame to realize the importance of governance during the visit and investigation in the UnitedStates and Europe. With ookuboutoshimichi as the leading role of “governance party” throughthe coup “governance to be priority” principle to master the power of the government, tomake the Ministry of Home Affairs as the center of the entire government, Minister of HomeAffairs also became a leading political officer of Daijo-kan.The second part discusses the specific administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs,including Japanese industrializations and police system, local autonomy, and the early Meijiaggression towards foreign countries. Japanese industrializations in the period of JapaneseMinistry of Home Affairs gave priority to the protection and supporting of the private sector,develop agricultural and commercial business, stimulate the private economy so as tocomplete the initial accumulation of capital. Police system also gradually became perfect,starting to play a role in modern Japan. Via various measures of Ministry of Home Affairs,quelling the cremation of rebellion, a preliminarily solve the conflicts between the central andlocal. But after the stable domestic situation, Japan has switched attention to her neighbors,annexing Ryukyu Islands and invading Taiwan and North Korea, the militarism tendency ofMinistry of Home Affairs began to emerge.The third part is about the relationship between the Ministry of Home Affairs andCommunications. The Ministry in its early times reinforced the Restoration system,preventing the newly-stabilized Japanese political situation from splitting. Implementing thecabinet system, the Ministry then was made the comprehensive departments of internal affairs.Constitution of the Empire of Japan included the Ministry into the Emperor System until itsdisintegration after the War.Ministry of Home Affairs played a vital role in the formation of Meiji state. In the periodof Meiji, various social aspects including politics, economy, military as well as people’s daily life were all connected with the Ministry. The ministry, as it were, effectively contributed tothe formation and development of the Meiji state.