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t. e. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [ 1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.
The 1586 Tenshō earthquake strikes central Honshu, killing thousands. 1587. Toyotomi Hideyoshi launches the Kyūshū campaign . 1590. 4 August. Toyotomi Hideyoshi prevails over the Late Hōjō clan in the siege of Odawara in the Kantō region, completing the re-unification of Japan. 1591. 8 October.
In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文 時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. [4]
The Empire of Japan, [ c] also referred to as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [ d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947. [ 8] From 29 August 1910 until 2 September 1945, it administered the naichi (the Japanese archipelago, Kuril ...
t. e. The historiography of Japan ( 日本史学史 Nihon shigakushi) is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan . The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku, who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in 620 CE. The earliest extant work is the ...
The Making of Modern Japan is the last work by American author Marius Jansen, who died one week after the book was published. [1] The book details the history of Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 up until 2000, [2] analysing the changes in Japan's economic policies, education, military, and both high and low culture.
The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia and other regions of the world. [ 1 ] Since the Jomon period, ancestral groups like the Yayoi and Kofun, who arrived to Japan from Korea and China, respectively, have ...
The Constitution of the Empire of Japan ( Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國憲法; Shinjitai: 大日本帝国憲法, romanized: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kenpō ), known informally as the Meiji Constitution ( 明治憲法, Meiji Kenpō ), was the constitution of the Empire of Japan which was proclaimed on February 11, 1889, and remained in force between ...