<P> The Empire of Japan ( 大 日本 帝國 , Dai Nippon Teikoku , literally meaning `` Empire of Great Japan '' ) was the historical nation - state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan . </P>
<P> The Empire of Japan ( 大 日本 帝國 , Dai Nippon Teikoku , literally meaning `` Empire of Great Japan '' ) was the historical nation - state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan . </P>
when did japan first emerge as a modern empire
when did japan first emerge as a modern empire
1868
1868