Empire of Japan (jpn)

Empire of Japan

Empire of Japan ranks 190th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Medina, Kharkiv, and Brno. Memorable people born in Empire of Japan include Olivia de Havilland, Junji Nishikawa, and Joan Fontaine. Memorable people who died in Empire of Japan include Natsume Sōseki, Terauchi Masatake, and Tanaka Giichi. Empire of Japan has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Empire of Japan is located in Japan.

The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan. Concessions such as the Kwantung Leased Territory were de jure not parts of the empire but dependent territories. In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the formalized Japanese Instrument of Surrender was issued on 2 September 1945 in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies, and the empire's territory subsequently shrunk to cover only the Japanese archipelago resembling modern Japan. Read more on Wikipedia