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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Japan and Korea were not really democracies before US occupation. Even now, Japan is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government, not a strict democracy. BTW, Thailand is a constitutional monarchy as well.
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Britain is also a Constitutional Monarchy... and a democracy. Parliamentary systems are just as entitled to be called democracies as our Republic.
As far as I know, there is no "pure democracy" in place as the government of a nation-state. All of what we call democracies are representative democracies, whether parliamentary systems or republics.