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 * Peace Preservation Law of 1925- Gave police power to incriminate communist or communist sympathisers.This power was employed in March 1928.
 * Arrest, imprisonment and often torture came amongst men and women without warning or apparent cause. By 1945 75,000 people were arrested under this law.
 * publications of books and newspapers that promoted anti-war and anti-imperialist ideas were banned as they //''would impair fundamental national policies.'//
 * The police had control over the censorship of publishing and the printing press.
 * Due to fear of imprisonment and threats from employers self-censorship was common.
 * The Japanese public was kept in ignorance of many events at home and abroad such as might show Japan in a bad light.
 * Action was taken against some Shinto and Buddhists sects, whose beliefs were critical of the state, or war, or approved social norms, or whose practices were unduly heterodox.
 * Many religions had little support from the government apart from State Shinto. The shinto ritual was not regarded as a religious act but on of '//patriotism and loyalty reflecting the basic moral virtues of our nation'.//
 * Intellectuals at the time who opposed to the authority of the emperor were tortured at the hands of the police.
 * Not all Japanese were succumed to pressure. Some continued to criticise events in privately-produced magazines and otheres resorted to intellectual seclusion.
 * Liberalism, voting and confrontational politics was seen as unJapanese.
 * Japanese school children were taught to admire Japan's past and present military achievements.
 * Taught to put nation always before self.
 * Individuals they were told //'are essentially not beings isolated from the state, but each has his allotted share as forming parts of the state'.//
 * // 'Under the emperor a body of people of one blood and one mind'. //