| | 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) |
