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This is a timeline of Japanese history, ... Date Event 1523: Japanese in-fighting ... post-World War II history of Japan. 21 July: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...
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.
Emperor Jimmu. 神武天皇. 660–585 BC. (75 years) 721 or 711–585 BC. (126 or 136 years) Son of kami Ugayafukiaezu. Claimed descent from the sun goddess, Amaterasu. Defeated Nagasunehiko in the Eastern Expedition to become emperor.
e. The Sengoku period, also known as Sengoku Jidai ( Japanese: 戦国時代, Hepburn: Sengoku Jidai, lit. 'Warring States period'), is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or Meiō incident (1493) is ...
The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 [ 1] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
This period in Japanese history is known as the Allied Occupation (1945–1952), when for the first time in history of Japan was occupied by a foreign power. U.S. President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed an end to hostilities on 31 December 1946.
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 ...