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The military takeover began throughout the year.Kita Ikki claimed that the Japanese were not the emperors people.
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The assassination of the Prime minister, Hara Takashi, was on November 4,1921 and he was assassinated by a railroad worker.
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The Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake also known as the Great Kanto earthquake was a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo- Yokohama metropolitan area around noon. This was the worst natural disaster that ever happened in Japan
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A suffrage bill was passed in Japan that allowed all males to now vote because before, they couldn't.
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The Showa Financial Crisis was from persistent financial instability, from bad distribute of loans, poor restructuring of businesses, and more, which soon led to the Showa Depression from 1930-1931. Japan escaped the Great Depression earlier than other countries due to macroeconomic stimulus measures.
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Japan invaded China due to their want for more natural resources such as rich land resources and more. Which also lead them to later create a puppet state called Manchukuo.
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Japan invades Manchuria during the aftermath of the Mukden accident. This invasion led to the Japanese establishing a puppet state called which Manchukuo in Manchuria.
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Inukai was shot by eleven junior Navy officers most of them just turning twenty years of age. His assassination marked the end of the party participation meaning the part cooperating in the Japanese government
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Japan withdraws from League of Nations after condemnation by the international community regarding their occupation of Manchuria and est. of Manchukuo.
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Japan signed with Nazi Germany to expand their country, they wanted more land and resources. Also, they wanted more power, so an alliance with another country made them stronger.
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The attempted a coup d'état, a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs. Organized by a young Japanese army officers who were trying to purge the government and military leadership of their rivals and opponents.
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A mass rape was done by involving Japanese soldiers going door to door searching for girls and women, many of them being gang raped and murdered. About 40,000-300,000 people died in this massacre. Pillage in Nanjing,China
