History and chronology of Abdication in Japan

General

House Heian Period
House Kamakura Period
House Tokugawa
World War, 2nd

Biographies

Go-Mizunoo
Heizei
Hirohito
Saga
Seiwa
Tsuchimikado
Uda
Yoshinobu
Yozei

Places

Abdication History of Japan


0809	Heizei
Abdicates in favour of his brother, Saga
0823	Saga
Abdicates in favour of his younger brother, Junna
0877	Seiwa
Seiwa abdicates
0884	Yozei
Forced to abdicate at the age of 17, insane & criminal
0897	Uda
Abdicates & is succeeded by 12 year old son Daigo
1199	Tsuchimikado
18th Feb Succeeds as Emperor upon the abdication of Emperor Go-Toba, who rules in actual fact as cloistered emperor
1210	Tsuchimikado
Go-Toba persuaded Tsuchimikado to abdicate in favor of his younger brother, who becomes Emperor Juntoku
1629	Go-Mizunoo
Forced to abdicate
1868	Yoshinobu
Last of the Tokugawa Shogunate
1944	Hirohito
8th July Members of Hirohito's family secretly agree he should abdicate in favour of Akihito