| Home My Top 10 Castle List (Basic) Castle List (With Photo) Castle List (With Profile) Original Remaining Castles History of Japanese Castle Structures and More Three Castle Types Geographical Index Castle Stamps Bibliography Resources Links |
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| Showa Period | ||||||||||||||
| 1926 - 1989 | ||||||||||||||
| ========================================================= 1932 Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated. ========================================================= 1936 Over 1,000 troops fail in an attempted coup d`etat. ========================================================= 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. ========================================================= 1945 Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ========================================================= 1946 In his new years address Emperor Showa renounces his divinity. ========================================================= 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games held. ========================================================= 1970 Osaka Expo opens ========================================================= |
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