They would have denied that the conscription law imposed a completely new duty.
However the resistance campaign also had some successes, notably a de facto reversal of the new conscription law.
A conscription law, modeled on the French version, is issued in Japan.
East Germany enacted its first conscription law, making military service mandatory for all men between the ages of 18 and 50 years old.
The conscription law included a substitution clause, which allowed men to pay someone else to take his place.
This exemption and the right to pay a substitute seemed to aim the conscription law at the poor man.
Nevertheless, the final result was a yes, which granted King the permission to bring in a conscription law if he wanted.
The action could have led to his court-martial had Congress not acted (a month later) to pass the conscription law.
In conjunction with the new conscription law, the Japanese government began modeling their ground forces after the French military.
The conscription law also made provisions for limited preferential treatment of service personnel and their families.