El Imperio de Japón (大日本帝国 Dai-Nippon/-Nihon Teikoku?) comúnmente se refiere a Japón desde la Restauración Meiji en 1868, pero no fue oficial hasta 1895 cuando comenzaron las guerras sino-japonesa y ruso-japonesa hasta el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la nueva constitución de Japón de 1947. La rápida industrialización y militarización del Japón Imperial, llevaron a su surgimiento como una potencia mundial y el establecimiento de un imperio colonial. En el apogeo de su poder, en 1942, el Imperio del Japón gobernó sobre una superficie que abarca 7,4 millones de kilómetros cuadrados , por lo que es uno de los más grandes imperios marítimos de la historia.

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The Empire of Japan (大日本帝國 Dai Nippon Teikoku, literally "Great Japanese Empire") was the historical Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan. Imperial Japan's rapid industrialization and militarization under the slogan Fukoku Kyōhei (富國強兵, "Enrich the Country, Strengthen the Armed Forces") led to its emergence as a world power and the establishment of a colonial empire. Economic and political turmoil in the 1920s led to the rise of militarism, eventually culminating in Japan's membership in the Axis alliance and the conquest of a large part of the Asia-Pacific region. After several large-scale military successes during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the Pacific War, the Empire also gained notoriety for its war crimes against the peoples it conquered. After suffering many defeats and following the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Manchuria, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, the Empire surrendered to the Allies on August 15, 1945. A period of occupation by the Allies followed the surrender, and a new constitution was created with American involvement in 1947, officially dissolving the Empire. Occupation and reconstruction continued well into the 1950s, eventually forming the current nation-state whose full title is the "State of Japan" or simply rendered "Japan" in English. The Emperors during this time, which spanned the entire Meiji and Taishō, and the lesser part of the Shōwa eras, are now known in Japan by their posthumous names, which coincide with those era names: Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito), Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito), and Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).

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