Empire of Japan
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The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the period of Japanese history spanning 79 years, starting with the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868, and ending with r
The Naval Battle of Hakodate, May 1869; in the foreground, Kasuga and Kōtetsu of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Emperor Meiji, the 122nd emperor of Japan
Prominent members of the Iwakura mission. Left to right: Kido Takayoshi, Yamaguchi Masuka, Iwakura Tomomi, Itō Hirobumi, Ōkubo Toshimichi
Ōura Church, Nagasaki
Hirohito
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Emperor Shōwa, personal name Hirohito, was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death on 7 January 1989. He reigned during a period of increasing Japanese nationalism and militarism, culmi
Empire of Japan
…continued until 1952, when the Treaty of San Francisco as a peace treaty took effect. In total, the Empire of Japan had three emperors: Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa. The Imperial era came to an end partway through Shōwa's reign, and he remained emperor until his death in 1989. The historical state is frequently…
Formal portrait, 1935
Hirohito as an infant in 1902
Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito, and Yasuhito
Prince Hirohito and British prime minister David Lloyd George, 1921