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  • This house would venerate Toshimichi Okubo instead of Takamori Saigo as a hero

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    Takamori Saigo and Toshimichi Okubo were central figures in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Takamori Saigo was a military leader who disagreed vehemently with westernization and resigned from the Meiji government for its refusal to invade Korea. Saigo was a traditionalist who wished to preserve samurai values. He instigated and died in a rebellion against the Meiji government over its mistreatment of the samurai caste. Toshimichi Okubo was a bureaucrat responsible for the establishment of a modern governmental structure in Japan. He went on tour to the West and came back convinced that Japan needed to adopt the Western method of development. As Home Minister Okubo fought and defeated his former friend Saigo. The samurai deemed Okubo as a traitor and assassinated him as a result. Saigo is still worshipped in Japan today venerated as the “last true samurai” and a defender of Japanese national identity. Okubo is not.

    Japan BP 2019 · Open Final · 2019-11-30

  • This house believes that distinct sub-nations in larger democratic states (i.e. Quebec Scotland Catalonia etc) should seek political representation via their own political parties rather than integration into broader federal parties.

    McMaster ProAms 2019 · 3 · 2019-11-15

  • This house opposes the formation of the East African Federation.

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    The East African Federation is a proposed political union of the six sovereign states of the East African Community – Burundi Kenya Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania and Uganda – as a single federated sovereign state. It would share one common currency. At 2467202 square kilometres the East African Federation would be the largest country.

    McMaster ProAms 2019 · Open Semis · 2019-11-15

  • This house as Indian citizens living in border areas W choose to make the existing political narrative about national and not local issues.

    Rajendra Prasad Memorial Debate 2019 · Open Final · 2019-11-14

  • Assuming the Sudanese civilians manage to take power from the military That the new civilian government should revert to its pre-1970 flag.

    Bali Australs 2019 · 3 · 2019-07-01

  • This house as the India National Congress would appeal to religious nationalism as a political strategy

    Vietnam UADC 2019 · Open Octos · 2019-06-24