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  2. Taishō era - Wikipedia

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    The Taishō era (大正時代, Taishō jidai, [taiɕoː dʑidai] ⓘ) was a period in the history of Japan dating from 30 July 1912 to 25 December 1926, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Taishō. [1]

  3. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    Prince Taisho became as the Emperor of Japan. This marked the start of the Taishō period. 1914: 5 to 6 September: Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first successful naval-launched air raids on 5 September 1914 and during the first months of World War I from Jiaozhou Bay off Qingdao. On 6 September 1914 was the very first ...

  4. List of prime ministers of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet.This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day.

  5. Emperor Taishō - Wikipedia

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    Funeral of Emperor Taisho in Tokyo. In early December 1926, it was announced that the emperor had pneumonia. He died of a heart attack at 1:25 a.m. on 25 December 1926 at the Hayama Imperial Villa at Hayama, on Sagami Bay south of Tokyo (in Kanagawa Prefecture). [20] He was 47 years old and succeeded by his eldest son, Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa.

  6. Taihō (era) - Wikipedia

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    Taihō (大宝) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") after a late 7th century interruption in the sequence of nengō after Shuchō and before Keiun. This period spanned the years from March 701 through May 704. [1] The reigning emperor was Monmu-tennō (文武天皇). [2]

  7. Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Taisho (大正天皇) Yoshihito (嘉仁) Haru-no-miya (明宮) 1912–26 Taishō Showa (昭和天皇) Hirohito (裕仁) Michi-no-miya (迪宮) 1926–89 6: Shōwa 1 Each posthumous name was given after the respective era names as Ming and Qing Dynasties of China. 2 The Japanese imperial family name has no surname or dynastic name.

  8. Japanese era name - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese era name (Japanese: 元号, Hepburn: gengō, "era name") or nengō (年号, year name), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "gan ( 元 ) ") meaning "origin, basis", followed ...

  9. Taishō political crisis - Wikipedia

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    Mobs vandalizing pro-government Niroku Shimposha newspaper office. The Taishō political crisis (大正政変, Taishō seihen) was a period of political upheaval in Japan that occurred after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912.