Shōwa era

, known colloquially by his personal name was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor in Japanese history and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world. As emperor during the Shōwa era, Hirohito presided over the rise of Japanese militarism, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Asia-Pacific theater of World War II, and the nation's postwar economic miracle.

period of Japanese history within the 20th century CE (1926-1989)

message that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies and pass them on to a certain number of recipients

abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea from 1977-83

involvement of Japan in World War II

cemetery in Nagabusamachi, Tokyo, Japan

attempted coup d'état in Japan on 25 November 1970 by writer Yukio Mishima

far-left terrorist attack in Tokyo

Japanese museum

steel works as a component of world heritage site in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

park in Tokyo, Japan

Stock protagonist of kamishibai and adaptations of it

thumb|250px|Hō-an-den in a school in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki|Sakuragawa, [[Ibaraki Prefecture; Greek temple type]] In Imperial Japan, between the 1910s and 1945, a was a small shrine- or temple-like building that housed a photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress (Emperor Meiji, Emperor Taishō, Emperor Shōwa, Empress Shōken, Empress Teimei and Empress Kōjun) together with a copy of the Imperial Rescript on Education. A Hō-an-den was typically installed at elementary schools, though also at a number of other institutions. This served as a place for the veneration of the Emperor of Japan.

1943-1945 Japanese arrests of suspected communists

1970 film by Shōhei Imamura

anthem of the Young Officers Movement

top 100 of Japanese landscapes in the Shōwa period