Rice riots of 1918
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The rice riots of 1918 were a series of popular disturbances that swept across Japan from July to September 1918. Lasting for over eight weeks, the riots were the largest, most widespread, and most vi
Ruins of the Okayama Seimai grain merchant building, burned by rioters in August 1918
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Monument in Uozu, Toyama, marking the origin of the 1918 rice riots
Ruined headquarters of Suzuki Shōten (the country's largest rice importer) in Kobe, burned by rioters
Terauchi Masatake
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Count Terauchi Masatake was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1916 to 1918. He was a Gensui in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Rice riots of 1918
…the riots were the largest, most widespread, and most violent popular uprising in modern Japanese history, ultimately leading to the collapse of the Terauchi Masatake administration. The disturbances began in the small fishing town of Uozu in Toyama Prefecture and spread to nearly 500 locations, including 49 cities…
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Portrait by Okada Saburōsuke
Terauchi Masatake (left) with General Kodama Gentarō (right) in 1904