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This article focuses on political conditions in Japan after the First World War. The war has brought about greater changes than Japan anticipated. Its effect will doubtless be as far-reaching morally and spiritually as it is politically and materially. The wave of world revulsion toward democracy is approaching Japan. To guide the country in safety through this period of unrest and to preclude contamination from European politics, is the absorbing task of Japanese officialdom. The situation is complicated by the attitude of the Japanese press, which constantly reminds the nation that it was the bureaucracy in Russia, Austria and Germany that led to the overthrow of monarchy and urges Japanese officialdom to take warning.