About Japan: A Teacher's Resource | Drawing of the Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution

Drawing of the Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution

by About Japan Editors

In 1889, the Meiji Emperor gave a Constitution to the people of Japan in a formal ceremony. The ceremony was aimed both at the Japanese population and the United States and Europe, to illustrate that Japan was a "modern nation."

Credit: Donated by Corbis-Bettmann

Type,Art; Topic,Government; Theme,History; Topic,History-Modern; Type,Image; Theme,Imperial Japan;

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