Dawn of Showa
Emperor Hirohito ascends. A new era of enlightened peace begins.
Ghost History of the Showa Era
Emperor Hirohito ascends. A new era of enlightened peace begins.
From the ashes, the postwar miracle begins. Reconstruction reshapes the nation.
Japan returns to the world stage. The bullet train screams into the future.
Osaka hosts the world. 77 nations gather under the Tower of the Sun.
The longest-reigning emperor passes. Showa becomes memory, becomes ghost.
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Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi. The Showa era produced cinema's greatest masters. Their ghosts still haunt every frame.
1950 - 1970CLICK TO REVEAL
Tange, Kurokawa, Kikutake. They built cities that grew like organisms. Concrete utopias rising from wartime rubble.
1960 - 1975CLICK TO REVEAL
Sony, Honda, Toyota. From transistor radios to bullet trains. Japan rewired the world.
1955 - 1989CLICK TO REVEAL
From the melancholy of enka to the neon sheen of city pop. Showa music is a time capsule of longing and euphoria.
1960 - 1989CLICK TO REVEAL
Tezuka's God Hand. Shonen, shoujo, gekiga. The Showa era invented manga as we know it, panel by haunted panel.
1947 - 1989CLICK TO REVEAL
The supernatural never left. From kaidan to J-horror, Showa-era ghost stories rewrote fear for the modern world.
1926 - 1989