Timeline on Japan from 1910 to 1920 ( John )

Here is some researches I did on Japan history since 1910.

Part 1:


1909: Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts.

1911: Bernard Leach discovers his future at a raku party in Japan, where each guest is invited to throw a pot.

1912: Tibet declares its independence after the fall of the Qing dynasty and the end of imperial China.

1913: Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president.

1914: On August 23 Japan, with her own local agenda in the far east, declares war on Germany.

1920: The Japanese potter Shoji Hamada accompanies Bernard Leach on his return to England.

And this is the link :
http://www.timesearch.info/timesearch/default.asp?conid=static_timeline&timelineid=434&page=2


Part 2:

• 1910 Japan officially annexes Korea, which remains a Japanese colony until 1945.

• 1912 Emperor Meiji dies and his third son Yoshihito (Emperor Taisho, 1879–1926) is coronated.

• 1914 On August 23, Japan declares war against Germany, entering World War I on the side of the allies Great Britain, France, and Russia. Japan is primarily motivated by a desire to expand its territorial interests, especially in China and the Pacific Islands. Although the Treaty of Versailles, which ends the war in 1919, focuses on European concerns, Japan maintains economic influence in China's Shandong Peninsula, gains control over Pacific islands formerly dominated by Germany, and joins the League of Nations.

• 1916 The first animated film is made in Japan, beginning an art form that will grow throughout the century to gain worldwide fame. Ofuji Noburo (1900–1961), who creates animated movies using cutout silhouettes, is the first Japanese filmmaker in this field to gain global recognition.

• 1918 Hara Takashi (1856–1921), head of the Seiyukai political party—the opposition of the Rikken Doshikai party (later called Kenseikai)—is named prime minister and forms what is considered Japan's first party cabinet. Although nonpartisan senior ministers succeed in appointing a nonparty successor to Hara after he is assassinated in 1921, this important step in the development of a two-party political system in Japan eventually has lasting results.

• 1923 A major earthquake, followed by firestorms, devastates the greater Tokyo region. After the resulting social uprisings and disorder are quelled, there is an enormous need for new architecture and urban restructuring.

And the link:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/eaj/ht11eaj.htm


Part 3:

1910: Japan annexes Korea and thereby terminates the Choson dynasty.

1912: emperor Meiji dies and new emperor Taisho shifts more power to the parliament.

1914: World War I breaks out in the Balkans, pitting Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, USA and Japan against Austria, Germany and Turkey.

1923: the great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo.

And the link:
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/japanese.html


That it for now. I should be posting some more later on.