Question

“Japan Presses Greater East Asia Co-prosperity

Policy on Southeast Asia”
“Tokyo Is Firebombed”
“Atom Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki”
Which period of Japanese history is associated
with these headlines?
(1) Tokugawa shogunate
(2) Meiji Restoration
(3) reign of Emperor Hirohito
(4) Japan’s economic miracle

Answer 1

The period of Japanese history associated with those headlines is 3. the reign of Emperor Hirohito. Hirohito oversaw Japanese imperialism as the country expanded and subjected the peoples of Korea and China under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Hirohito was also the ruler of Japan during World War II when Tokyo was firebombed and the atom bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.