Empire of Japan

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1868 – 1947 · up to 7,044 thousand km² · Asia

Capital: Tokyo City (1889–1943), Tokyo (1943–…)

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 ratification of the Constitution of Japan on 3 May 1947. From August 1910 to September 1945, it included mainland Japan, Okinawa, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan. The South Seas Mandate and concessions were de jure not internal parts of the empire but dependent territories.

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Predecessors: Tokugawa Shogunate

Successors: Japan

Rulers

Japan: shoguns & emperors

Tokugawa Yoshinobu 1867 – 1868, Emperor Meiji 1868 – 1912, Emperor Taishō 1912 – 1926, Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) 1926 – 1989

Events on its territory

• 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
• 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
• 1945 Indonesia proclaims independence