The Japanese Privy Council

@article{Colegrove1931TheJP,  title={The Japanese Privy Council},  author={Kenneth Wallace Colegrove},  journal={American Political Science Review},  year={1931},  volume={25},  pages={589 - 614},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143998371}}
For more than a decade, the Privy Council has been the subject of political controversy in Japan. Today, a group of liberals look upon the Council as an obstruction to the progressive development of parliamentary government and urge its reform, if not abolition. Under these circumstances, there is a tendency to subject the Council to considerable scrutiny from a utilitarian viewpoint. What is its purpose? Does it adequately fulfill this purpose, or does it obstruct the present trend of… 
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