Without being too extravagant you can get by with 5000 to 10000 yen per day on lunch and dinner including transportation/subway/rail. That's about $50.00 to $100.00 in American dollars (minimizing taxi usage). Try to avoid the taxi's because that could cost a small fortune, especially in rush hour.
The popular referendum is a device which allows voters to approve or repeal an act of the Legislature. If the Legislature passes a law that voters do not approve of, they may gather signatures to demand a popular vote on the law.
Progressive Era: 1890â1920s: Progressive Political Reform. The American voting public of the early 1900s was accustomed to the tenet that the best government was the least government. Progressive era politics changed that belief when government corruption became commonplace. Reformers like Teddy Roosevelt in Washington and Governor Hiram Johnson in California responded to an epidemic of political and civic corruption by expanding the role of government in regulating the economy and in giving citizens, for the first time, direct access to the legislative process.