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Shôwa period (1926-1989)
昭 和時代 shôwa-jidai


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The Showa period or the reign of Emperor Hirohito (1901-89) from 1926 to 1989, was the longest imperial reign in Japanese history. In the course of this period Japan traversed a complex course that led it from parliamentary democracy into militarism and global war, and from defeat and allied occupation to recovery and level of prosperity by rapid economic growth that astonished the whole world. In 1964, nearly 20 years after atomic bombs have been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Olympic Games were held in Tôkyô (1964), followed by Sapporo (1972) and the World Exposition in Ôsaka (1970). In 1968 novelist Kawabarta Yasunari received the Nobel Price for Literature.

HISTORICAL FIGURES

» OKAMOTO Tarô (1911-1996)
» TOYODA Kiichirô (1894-1952)
» TOYODA Shôichirô (1925-)
HISTORICAL PLACES & EVENTS

» World Exposition in Ôsaka (1970)