The short-lived <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republic of Ezo">Republic of Ezo</a> is proclaimed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezo" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ezo">Ezo</a> area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japan">Japan</a>.<sup about="#mwt57" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_15#cite_note-9" id="mwhg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhw">[9]</span></a></sup> It is the first attempt to establish a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Democracy">democracy</a> in Japan.<sup about="#mwt61" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_15#cite_note-10" id="mwiQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwig">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt54" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLu2019">Lu, Sidney Xu (2019). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IDGdDwAAQBAJ" id="mwBqI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBqM">The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism</i></a>. New York: Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwBqQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>94, fn. 95. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBqU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBqY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781108482424" id="mwBqc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781108482424"><bdi id="mwBqg">9781108482424</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt54" class="Z3988" id="mwBqk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Making+of+Japanese+Settler+Colonialism&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=94%2C+fn.+95&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2019&amp;rft.isbn=9781108482424&amp;rft.aulast=Lu&amp;rft.aufirst=Sidney+Xu&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DIDGdDwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+15"></span></span>