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Showa Day (昭和の日, Shōwa no Hi) is a public holiday in Japan held on April 29. It honors the birthday of Emperor Shōwa ( Hirohito ), the reigning emperor from 1926 to 1989. [ 1 ] Shō (昭) means "shining" or "bright", and wa (和) means "peace", signifying the "enlightened peace" that citizens receive.
Memorials to the era include Shōwa Day, the Showa Memorial Park and National Showa Memorial Museum. There is a phenomenon of Shōwa nostalgia. [40] In the 2020s, there were an increased number of programmes relating to the era, such as Takeda Tetsuya no Shōwa wa kagayaiteita, on the Broadcasting Satellite (BS) television channels. [41]
1 January – New Year's Day; 17 April – Maundy Thursday; 18 April – Good Friday; 1 May – Labour Day; 7 June – Flag Day; 29 June – Feast of Saints Peter and Paul; 28–29 July – Independence Day; 30 August – Santa Rosa de Lima; 8 October – Battle of Angamos; 1 November – All Saints' Day; 8 December – Immaculate Conception
As of 2017, three quarters of the Japanese population were born in the Shōwa era. [10] By 2004, the expression "the good old Shōwa days" (古き良き昭和, furuki yoki Shōwa) was in use.
The film recreates the chain of historical events from April to 15 August 1945 (Hirohito surrender broadcast), which determined the further fate of Japan: the last months of the command of the armed forces of Imperial Japan and the military council under the leadership of Emperor Shōwa in the period before surrender of Japan in World War II, the tenure of Kantarō Suzuki as Prime Minister and ...
The Shōwa Restoration (昭和維新, Shōwa Ishin) was promoted by Japanese author Kita Ikki in the 1930s, with the goal of restoring power to the newly enthroned Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and abolishing the liberal Taishō democracy. [1]
Showa: A History of Japan, known in Japan as Comic Showa-shi (Japanese: コミック昭和史, Hepburn: Komikku Shōwa-shi, lit. ' A Comics History of the Showa Era '), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki. An autobiographical work, it describes the author's experiences growing up during the Shōwa period. Mizuki ...
Shōwa Monogatari (昭和物語, trans. Shōwa Era Story) is a 2011 Japanese anime film and television series about the Yamazaki family, who live in Tokyo during Shōwa 39 (1964), the same year Tokyo hosts the 1964 Summer Olympics.