Japanese Empire

The Japanese Empire was a nation occupying the Japanese archipelago, and later Korea and Taiwan, that existed from the Meiji restoration in 1868 to the present. It was defeated by the German Empire, USSR and the Danish Empire.

The capital of Japan was Edo, or Tokyo. It was ruled by a Diet and an autocratic emperor, believed to be descended from the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu.

Japan was formed from the Tokugawa Shogunate, Ryukyu Kingdom and Republic of Ezo. It took control of the Korean Empire, southern Sakhalin (which had been under the control of the Russian Empire), and Qing Formosa. It also made various other gains in the pacific and China. It retained these territories until the USSR absorbed it as the Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese SSRs as well as the Germans taking the Pacific islands and the Chinese territories, returning the Chinese areas to the Chinese.