 Complete the following phrase:  Influence of the House of Representatives on the government increased, and the party cabinets of the 1920s brought Japan apparently closer to a parliamentary system of government, and there were several reforms to the upper house in 1925. However, the balance of powers between the two houses and the influential role of extra-constitutional actors such as the Genrō who still selected the prime minister or the military that had brought down several cabinets remained in essence untouched. Within a year of the 