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Zengakuren demonstrate and riot in Tokyo against terms for the return of Okinawa from US to Japanese control. They wanted to remove all American military presence. 24 November: The 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement is ratified and returned the Okinawa Prefecture to Japanese sovereignty. 1974: Prime Minister Eisaku Satō accepted the Nobel Peace ...
During the Meiji period, Japan underwent a rapid transition towards an industrial economy. [193] Both the Japanese government and private entrepreneurs adopted Western technology and knowledge to create factories capable of producing a wide range of goods. [194] By the end of the period, the majority of Japan's exports were manufactured goods ...
Thus began the Sengoku period, a period of civil war in which the daimyo of various regions fought to expand their own power. [9] [12] Daimyo who became more powerful as the shogunate's control weakened were called sengoku daimyo (戦国大名), and they often came from shugo daimyo, Shugodai, and kokujin or kunibito (国人, local masters).
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, [1] from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. [ a ]
Pages in category "Japanese eras" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 267 total. ... (Kamakura period) Kōan (Muromachi period)
Earthquakes in Japan by period (7 C) Japanese people by period (25 C) A. Aftermath of World War II in Japan (4 C, 21 P) Ancient Japan (10 C, 23 P)
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Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.