Japanese Era

Use this editor to define a Japanese era of the emperors, for use with Kanji.

The traditional dating system in Japan as based on the reigns of the emperors. Uniface provides language setups for modern Japanese eras in libmsg.usys.xml.

Modern Japanese Eras
Date Japanese Era (Kanji) Japanese Era (Western)
1868-1912

明治

Meiji
1912-1926

大正

Taishō
1926-1989

昭和

Shōwa
1989-2019

平成

Heisei
2019 to present

令和

Reiwa

You can use this dialog to define the available eras for the application.

Note:  You must have the Kanji font available on your machine.

Fields

  • Begin Date —date on which the selected Japanese Era is to be applied.
  • Era—Japanese Era for the current language setup.

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