1) Empire of Japan 
The best-known usage of this word would be in the United States before the end of the Second World War in 1945; Christian missionaries such as D.C. Holtom used the word to claim that the Emperor was viewed as a god in Japan. It was not used in any Japanese government publication. In 1946, at the request of the GHQ, the Shōwa Emperor (Hirohito) pr...