State
Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan was the Japanese state from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 until the post-war constitution of 1947. It modernised rapidly, defeated China and Russia, acquired colonies including Taiwan and Korea, and expanded across East and South-East Asia before its defeat in the Second World War in 1945.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Empire of Japan. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/empire-of-japan
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- The Epoch Institute. “Empire of Japan.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/empire-of-japan.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Empire of Japan’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/empire-of-japan (Accessed: ).
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