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This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, territorial and cultural changes and political events in Japan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Japan .
Nationalist politics in Japan sometimes exacerbated these tensions, such as denial of the Nanjing Massacre and other war crimes, [290] revisionist history textbooks, and visits by some Japanese politicians to Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japanese soldiers who died in wars from 1868 to 1954, but also has included convicted war criminals ...
Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu. Ooms, Herman (2009). Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty. pp. 650– 800. Sansom, George Bailey, G. B. (1978). Cambridge History of Japan: Ancient Japan. Kornicki, Peter F. (2012). "The ...
Miniature model of the ancient capital Heian-kyō (from History of Japan) Image 8 Middle Jōmon vase (2000 BC) (from History of Japan ) Image 9 Prince Shōtoku was a semi-legendary regent of the Asuka period , and considered to be the first major sponsor of Buddhism in Japan.
The following is a timeline of the history of the ... History of Japan; Prehistoric. ... Jōmon: 14,000–1000 BC: Yayoi. 1000 BC–300 AD: Ancient. Kofun. 300–538 ...
The terms Tennō ('Emperor', 天皇), as well as Nihon ('Japan', 日本), were not adopted until the late 7th century AD. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] In the nengō system which has been in use since the late 7th century, years are numbered using the Japanese era name and the number of years which have elapsed since the start of that nengō era.
The Sengoku period (戦国時代, 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.
Keyhole-shaped kofun drawn in 3DCG (Nakatsuyama Kofun [] in Fujiidera, Osaka, 5th century) Kofun-period jewelry (British Museum). Kofun (from Middle Chinese kú 古 "ancient" + bjun 墳 "burial mound") [7] [8] are burial mounds built for members of the ruling class from the 3rd to the 7th centuries in Japan, [9] and the Kofun period takes its name from the distinctive earthen mounds.