Flashcards: Empire of Japan

Zaibatsu (財閥, literally financial clique) is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.

The Constitution of the Empire of Japan (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國憲法 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国憲法 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kenpō), known informally as the Meiji Constitution (明治憲法 Meiji Kenpō) was the constitution of the Empire of Japan in force from November 29, 1890 until May 2, 1947.

Muroran (室蘭市 Muroran-shi) is a city and port located in Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Statism in Shōwa Japan (国家主義 Kokka Shugi) was a political syncretism of Japanese right-wing political ideologies, developed over a period of time from the Meiji Restoration.

Japanese nationalism (Japanese: 国家主義 Hepburn: Kokka shugi) is the nationalism that asserts that the Japanese are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of the Japanese.

The General Defense Command (防衛総司令部 Bōei Soshireibu) was a headquarters organization equivalent to an army group within the Imperial Japanese Army established to control all land and air units stationed within Japan proper, Korea and Taiwan during the Pacific War.

The Imperial Japanese Army or IJA (大日本帝國陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun), literally "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire", was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan, from 1871 to 1945.

The Shizoku (士族 Shizoku, lit. "warrior families") was a social class merged with former Samurai on 25 July 1869, as part of the Meiji Restoration.

Dai Nippon Butoku Kai (DNBK) 大日本武徳会 (lit. "Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society") is a Japanese martial arts organization established in 1895 in Kyoto.

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II.

Mainland Japan (内地 naichi, lit. "inner lands") is a term to distinguish the area of Japan from its outlying territories.

Kokutai (Kyūjitai: 國體, Shinjitai: 国体, literally "national body/structure") is a politically-loaded word in the Japanese language translatable as "system of government", "sovereignty", "national identity; national essence; national character", "national polity; body politic; national entity; basis for the Emperor's sovereignty; Japanese constitution".

The Kanmon Railway Tunnel, Kanmon Roadway Tunnel, and Shin-Kanmon Tunnel are undersea tunnels crossing the Kanmon Straits between Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, and Kitakyushu, Fukuoka in western Japan.

"Kimigayo" (君が代) is the national anthem of Japan.

Hashima Island (端島 or simply Hashima — -shima is a Japanese suffix for island), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島; meaning Battleship Island), is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan.

Karafuto Prefecture (樺太庁 Karafuto-chō), commonly called South Sakhalin, was the Japanese administrative division corresponding to Japanese territory on southern Sakhalin island from 1905 to 1945.

The Iwakura Mission or Iwakura Embassy (岩倉使節団, Iwakura Shisetsudan) was a Japanese diplomatic voyage to the United States and Europe conducted between 1871 and 1873 by leading statesmen and scholars of the Meiji period.

The Empire of Japan (大日本帝國 Dai Nippon Teikoku, literally "Great Japanese Empire") was the historical Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.

The Meiji period (明治時代 Meiji-jidai), also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868 through July 30, 1912.

The abolition of the han system (廃藩置県 haihan-chiken) in the Empire of Japan and its replacement by a system of prefectures in 1871 was the culmination of the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868.

The Kempeitai (憲兵隊 Kenpeitai, "Military Police Corps") /kɛmpeɪtaɪ/ was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945.

The Asama Maru (浅間丸 Asama maru) was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha.

The Tatsuta polder sluice gates (立田輪中人造堰樋門 Tatsuta-wajū jinzōseki-himon) were constructed in 1902 during works on the Kiso River in Yatomi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

The Terukuni Maru-class ocean liner (照國丸型貨客船, Terukuni Maru-gata Kakyakusen) was a class of ocean liners of Japan, serving during the 1930s, and into World War II.

The Ishii lock (石井閘門), begun in 1878 and completed in 1880, is a lock on the canal beside the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access digital repository of images from all areas of the history of the Empire of Japan.

The Korean National Revolutionary Party (Korean: 조선민족혁명당, Minjok Hyǒngmyǒng-dang), or KNRP, was a left-wing nationalist party formed by exiles in Shanghai in 1935 to resist the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The Neighborhood Association (隣組 Tonarigumi) was the smallest unit of the national mobilization program established by the Japanese government in World War II.

The Chichibu Maru (秩父丸) was a Japanese passenger ship which, renamed Kamakura Maru, was sunk during World World II, killing 2,035 soldiers and civilians on board.

Nihonga (日本画, "Japanese-style paintings") are paintings that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials.

A chōnaikai (町内会) is a Japanese local community of citizens or a form of neighbourhood association.

The Senshi Sōsho (戦史叢書, War History Series), also called the Kōkan Senshi (公刊戦史), is the official military history of Imperial Japan's involvement in the Pacific War from 1937 to 1945.

State Shintō (国家神道 or 國家神道 Kokka Shintō) describes Empire of Japan's ideological use of the native folk traditions of Shinto.

The League of Blood Incident (血盟団事件 Ketsumeidan Jiken, also translated as Blood-Pledge Corps Incident) was a 1932 assassination plot in Japan in which extremists targeted wealthy businessmen and liberal politicians.

Japan Air Transport Corporation (日本航空輸送株式会社 Nihon Kōkū Yusō Kabushiki Kaisha) was the national airline of the Empire of Japan from 1928 to 1938.

The Nanking Incident (Chinese: 南京事件; pinyin: Nánjīng Shìjiàn; Wade–Giles: Nan2-ching1 Shih4-chien4) occurred in March 1927 during the capture of Nanjing (then Nanking) by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) in their Northern Expedition.

Kijirō Nambu (南部 麒次郎 Nanbu Kijirō, September 22, 1869 – May 1, 1949) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the founder of Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of many of the firearms the Japanese military would use in World War II.

The October incident (十月事件 Jūgatsu Jiken), also known as the Imperial Colors incident (錦旗革命事件 Kinki Kakumei Jiken), was an abortive coup d'état attempt in Japan on 21 October 1931, launched by the Sakurakai secret society within the Imperial Japanese Army, aided by civilian ultranationalist groups.

Imperial Japanese Airways (大日本航空株式会社 Dai Nippon Kōkū Kabushiki Kaisha, also Greater Japan Airlines or Greater Japan Airways) was the national airline of the Empire of Japan during World War II.

The National Spiritual Mobilization Movement (国民精神総動員運動 Kokumin Seishin Sōdōin Undo) was an organization established in the Empire of Japan as part of the controls on civilian organizations under the National Mobilization Law by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.

The Imperial Library (帝国図書館 Teikoku Toshokan) of the Empire of Japan was established in 1872.

Irako (伊良湖) was a Japanese food supply ship, serving during the Second World War.

The Japanese colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies established by Imperial Japan in the Western Pacific and East Asia region from 1895.