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Topic: Emperor Godaigo of Japan


  
  Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The second city in Japan to be destroyed by an atomic bomb.
Nagasaki is a city at the south-western coast of Japan.
To call the current emperor by the current era name Heisei even in English would be a faux pas as it is and will be his posthumous name.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/n.html   (3125 words)

  
 Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This was the first government in Japan to be run by the samurai class (bakufu), and the emperors of Japan remained in the background, until Emperor Godaigo defeated the Kamakura Bakufu and recovered imperial rule in 1333.
Emperor Meiji was given full authority to run the nation one year later, and Japan began the process of modernization, industrial revolution and social progress.
The period between the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912 and Japan's entry into WWII in 1941 is divided into two periods: the period of Emperor Taisho's rule of Japan from 1912 to 1926, and the period following the ascension of Emperor Showa (whose birth name was Hirohito) to the throne in 1926.
www.cgjsf.org /en/e_m08_01_09.htm   (2262 words)

  
 August 8 Events in History
August 8, 1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
August 8, 1945 U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II August 8, 1945 U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea
August 8, 1322 Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery.
www.brainyhistory.com /days/august_8.html   (2012 words)

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