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| Empire of Japan | |
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| Constitutional Monarchy | |
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| Capital | Tokyo |
| Languages | Japanese |
| Population | 118,000,000 |
The Empire of Japan is a constitutional monarchy in East Asia and one of the world’s largest industrial economies. The wartime government collapsed in the early 1940s following a military coup that ended the Pacific War. The imperial institution survived, though stripped of executive authority, and successive governments in the pluralistic postwar years pursued land redistribution, industrial consolidation and parliamentary governance.
Japan is a major industrial and technological power, competitive in heavy manufacturing, photoelectrics and precision engineering. It trades extensively across the Pacific and with Southeast Asia but has little appetite for foreign entanglement, and has kept its military modest and its foreign policy quiet. It has no significant territorial disputes and does not involve itself in the affairs of its neighbours beyond commerce. This insularity is broadly popular domestically and lends to a certain stereotype of the land of the rising sun as a country of manufacturers and technocrats.