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Prince Shotoku issues Kenpo Jushichijo, or Seventeen-article constitution, a Chinese-style constitution based on Confucian principles, which de facto inaugurates the Japanese empireLocation
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Article 1 Harmony is to be valued, and an avoidance of wanton opposition to be honoured. All men are influenced by class-feelings, and there are few who are intelligent. Hence there are some who disobey their lords and fathers, or who maintain feuds with the neighbouring villages. But when those above are harmonious and those below are friendly, and there is concord in the discussion of business, right views of things spontaneously gain acceptance. Then what is there which cannot be accomplished!
