Empire of Japan (Acts of Union)

The Empire of Japan (大日本帝國 Dai Nippon Teikoku?, literally "Greater Japanese Empire") was the historical Japanese nation-state that exists from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the modern day with major policy and attitude changes evolving the Japanese state through the years.

Imperial Japan's rapid industrialization and militarization under the slogan Fukoku Kyōhei (富國強兵?, "Enrich the Country, Strengthen the Armed forces") led to its emergence as a world power and the establishment of a colonial empire. Economic and political turmoil in the 1920s led to the rise of militarism. This was eventually curtailed by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohoto following a major purging of the armed forces following the ill gotten invasion of China which resulted in the Rape of Nanking.

After several large scale military successes in China the Japanese consolidated their gains and ended their offensive operations in China in 1944 after securing parts of northern China and many port cities. These territories were used to establish the Chinese Federation in 1946 following a restructuring of the Japanese Empire which saw it integrate Korea, Hainan, Formasa, and Manchukuo as proper territories and develop the Chinese territories as a powerful economic and military ally abandoning much of its Racial supremacy doctrines in favor of developing an economic bloc.

The Emperors during this time, which spanned the entire Meiji and Taishō, and the lesser part of the Shōwa eras, are now known in Japan by their posthumous names, which coincide with those era names: Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito), Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito), and Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).

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