iwakuni " hirohito was the japanese emperor that presided over japan's transition towards modernization.
iwakuni " hirohito was the japanese emperor that presided over japan's transition towards modernization.
who was the japanese emperor that presided over japan's transition towards modernization?
iwakuni " hirohito
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meiji, the romanization of the japanese characters 明 治 , may refer to:









































section::::japanese emperor and era.









































bullet::::- emperor meiji, the emperor of japan between 1867 and 1912.









































bullet::::- meiji period, the name given to that period in japanese history.









































bullet::::- meiji restoration, the revolution that began the meiji period.









































bullet::::- meiji constitution, the constitution of the empire of japan between 1890 and 1947.









































bullet::::- meiji shrine, the shinto shrine dedicated to emperor meiji and his wife.









































section::::other uses.









































bullet::::- meiji dairies, a major japanese dairy company.









































bullet::::- meiji mura, an open-air architectural museum near nagoya, japan.
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by 1940, the japanisation of manchuria had become extreme, and an altar to the shinto goddess amaterasu was built on the grounds of puyi's palace. the origins of the altar are unclear, with the postwar japanese claiming that puyi aimed for a closer connection to the japanese emperor as a means of resisting the political machinations of the manchukuo elites, while puyi in his chinese communist-published autobiography claims that he was forced to submit to this by the japanese. during his visit to japan in 1940 for "kigensetsu", which was marked with especially lavish celebrations that year to mark the supposed 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the empire of japan by the mythical emperor jimmu on 11 february 660 bc, puyi during his meeting with the showa emperor read out a statement given to him by general yoshioka asking for permission to worship the shinto gods and to establish shintoism as the state religion of manchukuo. the showa emperor replied "i must comply with your wishes" and gave him three relics, namely a bronze mirror, a sword and a piece of jade (reproductions of the imperial regalia of japan) to take home with him to be the center of shinto worship in manchukuo. puyi later wrote ""i thought beijing antique shops were full of such objects. were these a great god? were those my ancestors? i burst into tears on the drive back"." since in the japanese state religion of shintoism the japanese emperor was worshiped as a living god, worshiping at the shinto shrine in the salt tax palace also meant worshiping the showa emperor as a god, which starkly underlined puyi's subordination to the showa emperor. in any case, puyi's wartime duties came to include sitting through chinese-language shinto prayers. hirohito was surprised when he heard of this, asking why a temple of heaven had not been built instead. after his second visit to japan, puyi announced in a press statement that japan and manchukuo were "unified in virtue and heart", praised the shinto sun goddess amaterasu for her "divine intervention" in 1931 that supposedly made manchukuo possible, and hailed the showa emperor as a living god as the house of yamato were all alleged to be the direct descendants of amaterasu. already at the manchukuo military academy that was training officers for the manchukuo army, the cadets were being taught to serve the "two emperors" with the cadets kowtowing to portraits of both the emperors of manchukuo and japan.
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