Meiji Period
This event in 1868 ended the rule of the Tokugawa Shoguns
What was the Meiji Restoration?
This term refers to the opening of political participation in Japan during the Taisho Period
What is Taisho Democracy?
This attack, carried out in 1941, triggered the United States entrance into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
This phrase represents the ambition of the United States during the Occupation to prevent a repeat of Japan's actions between 1931-1945
What is demilitarize and democratize?
This event, delayed due to COVID-19, saw protests over the entrance of foreign nationals into Japan
What were the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?
This country served as both the constitutional and army model for the Meiji state
What is Germany?
This 1923 event led to the death of hundreds of thousands and the destruction of about 45% of Tokyo
What is the Great Kanto Earthquake?
This battle, not reported in Japan until 1945, saw the loss of four IJN aircraft carriers to one American carrier
What is the Battle of Midway?
This sporting event in 1964 demonstrated Japan's postwar recovery to the world
What are the 1964 Tokyo Olympics?
This 2011 event, still ongoing, saw the establishment of exclusion zones, environmental confirmation, and pressure to abandon nuclear power worldwide
What is the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster?
This conflict, spanning from 1904-1905, shocked the Western world when Japan emerged victorious
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
These conglomerates amassed roughly 20% of all capital in Japan by the Taisho Period
What are zaibatsu?
This state, set up by Japan in 1934, was condemned by the League of Nations and led to their withdrawal from that body
What is Manchukuo?
This Japanese author, who committed suicide on top of a SDF building in 1970, examined the changes in postwar Japan through the lens of stories set in the prewar era
Who is Yukio Mishima?
This era, lasting from 1989-2019, saw a decrease in Japan's economic power and, to some extent, a decrease in their prestige on the global stage
What is the Heisei Era?
This event, in 1876, removed one of the greatest symbols of the samurai as a class
What is the Sword Ban/Haito Edict?
This law, amended in 1925, held that anyone attempting to change the body politic of Japan could receive the death penalty
What is the Peace Preservation Law?
This pan-Asian union represents the greatest extent of the Empire of Japan's control in 1942
What is the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
This 1969 required the Japanese government to increase investment in economically depressed areas, usually inhabited by burakumin
What is the Burakumin Special Measures Law/Law on Special Measures for Dowa Projects?
This economic platform, implemented under the premiership of PM Shinzo Abe, included tools like monetary easing and structural reforms
What is Abenomics?
This disease, first identified in the 1880s, was discovered when scientists identified vitamin B1 deficiencies in Japanese sailors
What is berberi/thiamine deficiency?
This figure, partially existing only in the imagination, represented the sexual, economic, and political freedom of Japanese women in the 20s
What is the modern girl/modan gaaru/moga?
This term, meaning "all the world under one roof", represented Japan's desire to bring all of Asia under its control
What is hakko ichiu?
This woman, the sole female representative on Douglas MacArthur's board in charge of writing the postwar Constitution, helped guarantee new rights for Japanese women
Who is Beate Sirota Gordon?
Connections to this church, and donations given by the assassin's mother, led to the attack on former Prime Minister Abe in 2022
What is the Unification Church?