| While the central government approved the autonomy of towns and villages which had had the tradition of self-government since the Edo period, it made them carry out decisions made through kocho (heads of towns and villages). |
江戸時代からの自治の伝統があった町村には、自治の実態を認めつつ、戸長を通じて上からの決定を実施させることにした。 |