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The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.
The Cambridge History of Japan Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22352-0. Peattie, Mark (1992). Nan'Yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1480-0. Plowright, John (2007). The causes, course and outcomes of World War Two. Histories and Controversies.
Japan's Continental Policy refers to a Pan-Asian strategy pursued by Japan, especially the Imperial Japanese Army, between the Meiji Restoration and Japan's expansion during World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The policy's major aim was to conquer Japan's neighboring countries such as Korea and China to dominate East Asia .
Although the state of Japanese Buddhism during this time was generally one of servility to the Japanese authoritarian system, [6] there were some exceptional individuals who resisted. Uchiyama Gudō was a Sōtō Zen Buddhist priest and anarcho-socialist. He was one of a few Buddhist leaders who spoke out against Japanese imperialism.
The Tokugawa Japan during a long period of “closed country” autarky between the mid-seventeenth century and the 1850s had achieved a high level of urbanization; well-developed road networks; the channeling of river water flow with embankments and the extensive elaboration of irrigation ditches that supported and encouraged the refinement of rice cultivation based upon improving seed ...
Japanese militarism (日本軍国主義, Nihon gunkoku shugi) was the ideology in the Empire of Japan which advocated the belief that militarism should dominate the political and social life of the nation, and the belief that the strength of the military is equal to the strength of a nation.
Yet with Japanese long-term inflation expectations moving closer to the 2 percent target, the Bank of Japan's zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) – and Japan's negative real bond yields – will ...
Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 is a non-fiction book by Parks M. Coble, published by Harvard University Press in 1991.. The work discusses how the conflicts between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China, in the run-up to, or the beginning of, the Second Sino-Japanese War, affected the way the ROC was run.