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The Ocala Evening Star
Ocala, Marion County, Florida
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In Japan, only 3 million of 57 million people can vote due to a $1.50 tax requirement. Dr. G. E. Uyehara, a political science professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, was dismissed for discussing universal suffrage but reinstated after a student strike.
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You cannot vote there unless you pay a land or business income tax equivalent to $1.50. With only three in fifty-seven paying income tax and voting, Japan has a big property problem.
These facts are from a speech by Dr. G. E. Uyehara, teaching political science in Meiji university, Tokyo. For discussing universal suffrage in his classes, he was dismissed. Got his job back when students struck in protest.
Free speech and suffrage cannot be permanently shackled even in imperialistic Japan. Opposing them is like fighting the law of gravity.
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dr. g. e. uyehara was dismissed for discussing universal suffrage but got his job back when students struck in protest.
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Japan has 57,000,000 population, but only 3,000,000 are allowed to vote because one must pay a land or business income tax equivalent to $1.50 to vote. These facts are from a speech by Dr. G. E. Uyehara, teaching political science in Meiji university, Tokyo. For discussing universal suffrage in his classes, he was dismissed. Free speech and suffrage cannot be permanently shackled even in imperialistic Japan.