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The Shōwa era (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, [ɕoːwadʑidai] ⓘ) is a historical period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989. [1]
Earthquakes of the Showa period (26 P) N. ... People of Shōwa-period Japan (2 C, 32 P) S. Shōwa period in fiction (1 C, 13 P) Shōwa Restoration (6 P) Shōwa ...
Shōwa (正和) or Medieval Showa was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year number") after Ōchō and before Bunpō. This period spanned the years from March 1312 through February 1317. [1] The reigning emperor was Hanazono-tennō (花園天皇). [2]
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 ...
Hirohito as an infant in 1902 Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito, and Yasuhito. Hirohito was born on 29 April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, [2] the first son of 21-year-old Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako, the future Empress Teimei. [3]
Dr. Shūmei Ōkawa: nationalist ideologist and instructor in Showa Studies Society; Count Yoriyasu Arima: another "professor" in Showa Studies Society; Fusanosuke Kuhara: ex-syndicalist, ideologist and right-wing spokesman; Komakichi Matsuoka: syndicalist and leader of the Worker Federation of Japan industrial Syndicate during the 1940s
The Enigma of Japanese Power;People and Politics in a Stateless Nation. Vintage. ISBN 0-679-72802-3. Brij, Tankha (2006). Kita Ikki And the Making of Modern Japan: A Vision of Empire. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 1-901903-99-0. Wilson, George M (1969). Radical Nationalist in Japan: Kita Ikki 1883-1937. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674 ...
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.