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Rice riots of 1918

The rice riots of 1918 (Japanese: 米騒動, Hepburn: kome sōdō) were a series of popular disturbances that swept across Japan from July to September 1918. Lasting for over eight weeks, the riots were the largest, most widespread, and most violent popular uprising in modern Japanese history, ultimately leading to the collapse of the Terauchi Masatake administration.

Rice riots of 1918
Rice riots of 1918 · published by 国書刊行会, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1918
Where
Empire of Japan
Era
Modern

Topics

Japan230 BCE – todayEmpire of Japan1864 – 1947

Before and after

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