2024年10月30日 — Meiji (born Nov. 3, 1852, Kyōto—died July 30, 1912, Tokyo) was the emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912, during whose reign Japan was dramatically transformed from a feudal country into one of the great powers of the modern world.. The second son of the emperor Kōmei, Mutsuhito was declared crown prince in 1860; following the death of his father in 1867, …