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Imperial Japan

Empire of Japan
Greater Japanese Empire

Dai Nippon Teikoku
1868–1947
Flag Imperial Seal
Motto
五箇条の御誓文
"Charter Oath"
("The Oath in Five Articles")
Anthem
("His Imperial Majesty's Reign")
The Empire of Japan in 1942
  •   Empire of Japan 1870–1905
  •   Acquisitions 1905–30
  •   Trusteeship, concession, occupied territories
Capital Tokyo
Languages Japanese
Religion De jure: none
De facto: espousing Shintoism

Other: Buddhism

Government Daijō-kan
(1868–1885)
Constitutional monarchy
(1890–1947)
One-party military dictatorship (1940–1945)
Emperor
 •  1868–1912 Meiji (Mutsuhito)
 •  1912–1926 Taishō (Yoshihito)
 •  1926–1947 Shōwa (Hirohito)
Prime Minister
 •  1885–1888 Itō Hirobumi (first)
 •  1946–1947 Shigeru Yoshida (last)
Legislature Imperial Diet
 •  Upper house House of Peers
 •  Lower house House of Representatives
Historical era Meiji, Taishō, Shōwa
 •  Meiji Restoration January 3, 1868
 •  Constitution adopted November 29, 1890
 •  Russo-Japanese War February 10, 1904
 •  Pacific War 1941–1945
 •  Surrender of Japan September 2, 1945
 •  Reconstituted May 2, 1947
Area
 •  1938 1,984,000 km² (766,027 sq mi)
Population
 •  1920 est. 77,700,000a 
 •  1940 est. 105,200,000b 
Currency Japanese yen,
Korean yen,
Taiwanese yen,
Japanese military yen
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Tokugawa Shogunate
Ryūkyū Kingdom
Republic of Ezo
Qing Dynasty
Russian Empire
Korean Empire
German New Guinea
Dutch East Indies
Occupied Japan
Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands
Republic of China
Military Government in Korea
Soviet Civil Authority
Sakhalin Oblast
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Dutch East Indies
a. 56.0 million lived in Japan proper.
b. 73.1 million lived in Japan proper.
Empire of Japan
Official Term name
Official Term Empire of Japan
Literal Translation name
Literal Translation Greater Japanese Empire

Other: Buddhism


The Empire of Japan (大日本帝國 Dai Nippon Teikoku?, literally "Greater Japanese Empire") was the historical Japanese nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.

Imperial Japan's rapid industrialization and militarization under the slogan Fukoku Kyōhei (富國強兵?, "Enrich the Country, Strengthen the Armed Forces") led to its emergence as a world power and the establishment of a colonial empire. Economic and political turmoil in the 1920s led to the rise of militarism, eventually culminating in Japan's membership in the Axis alliance and the conquest of a large part of the Asia-Pacific region.

After several large-scale military successes during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the Pacific War, the Empire also gained notoriety for its war crimes against the peoples it conquered. After suffering many defeats and following the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Manchuria, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, the Empire surrendered to the Allies on August 15, 1945. A period of occupation by the Allies followed the surrender, and a new constitution was created with American involvement in 1947, officially dissolving the Empire. Occupation and reconstruction continued well into the 1950s, eventually forming the current nation-state whose full title is the "State of Japan" or simply rendered "Japan" in English.


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