Just a few examples of subject headings realted to this class topics:
Japan -- History -- Restoration, 1853-1870
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912
Japan -- History -- Taishō period, 1912-1926
Japan -- History, Military -- 1868-1945.
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931-1933
Japan -- History -- 1926-1945.
Japan -- History -- Shōwa period, 1926-1989
Japan -- History -- 1945-1989.