The Taisho Era 1912-1926
The sudden death of Emperor Meiji in 1912 ushered in the relatively brief Taisho (Great Righteousness) era . Meiji's son Yoshihito, the only surviving male out of his fourteen children, suffered hereditary mental illness and by 1921 was so incapacitated that his own son Hirohito was declared regent. Britain had sent 500 sailors from the Royal Navy to march in Emperor Meiji's funeral parade and when World War I broke out two years later, this was the country Japan chose to ally itself with. Despite gaining more territory in Asia after the war and being one of the "Big Five" at the Paris Peace Conference and a founder member of the League of Nations in 1920, Japan was frustrated by Australia, Britain and the US in its attempts to get a declaration of racial equality inserted as part of the Charter of the League. This snub didn't stand in the way of continued friendly relations between Japan and the West, though. In 1921 Crown Prince Hirohito was a guest of King George V at Buckingham Palace, while the following year the Prince of Wales spent a month touring Japan. In many ways, the Roaring Twenties were no different in Japan (at least in the cities) than anywhere else in the industrialized world. Jazz, Marxism, modern arts and cafe society all caught on. Levelling Yokohama and much of Tokyo, and leaving 140,000 dead or missing, the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake was a significant blow, but the country was quickly back on its feet and celebrating the inauguration of Emperor Hirohito , in 1926, who chose the name Showa (Enlightened Peace) for his reign.
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