Japan’s Taisho era promised greater democracy, but militarism soon began to take hold. In Part 2 of this series, we explore the factors that led to the decline of civilian government and the rise of ...

Historians present Japan’s Taishō period, from 1912 to 1926, as a period of growing democracy in Japan ... the early years of the Taisho Emperor, political parties had begun to form. These parties ...

As dusk falls, the sounds of cicadas' echo, bringing a moment of coolness. *According to the 24 Solar Terms of Reiwa 6 (2024), Taisho is from July 22 to August 7.

It then deals with the difficulties provoked by modernization and nationalism in the first-half of the twentieth century, taking in the rise and fall of Taisho democracy and the drift towards fascism ...

ISE, Mie Prefecture--Recently discovered film footage from the Taisho Era (1912-1926 ... is now being shown at the Museum of Shinto and Japanese Culture on the university’s campus.