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  2. List of Japanese inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Japanese inventions and discoveries.The Japanese have made contributions across a number of scientific and technological domains. In particular, the country has played a crucial role in the digital revolution since the 20th century, with many modern revolutionary and widespread technologies in fields such as electronics and robotics introduced by Japanese inventors and ...

  3. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    History of Japan. 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.

  4. History of science and technology in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Technology in the Empire of Japan (1868–1945) For the first twenty years in the Meiji era, patents and inventions failed to attract much public attention. From the time of the Russo-Japanese War, largely through the action of the body known as the Imperial Invention Association, invention has been encouraged by the Government.

  5. Early Japanese iron-working techniques - Wikipedia

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    Early Japanese iron-working techniques. Early Japanese iron-working techniques are known primarily from archaeological evidence dating to the Asuka period (538–710 CE). Iron was first brought to Japan during the earlier Yayoi period (900 BCE to 248 CE). Iron artifacts of the period include farm implements, arrowheads, and rarely a knife blade.

  6. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文 時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BC, [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.

  7. Japanese Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Paleolithic period (旧石器時代, kyūsekki jidai) is the period of human inhabitation in Japan predating the development of pottery, generally before 10,000 BC. [1] The starting dates commonly given to this period are from around 40,000 BC, [ 2 ] with recent authors suggesting that there is good evidence for habitation from c ...

  8. Japanese pottery and porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Pottery and porcelain (陶磁器, tōjiki, also yakimono (焼きもの), or tōgei (陶芸)) is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period. [1] Types have included earthenware, pottery, stoneware, porcelain, and blue-and-white ware. Japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic ...

  9. Category:Japanese inventions - Wikipedia

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    Invention of the blue LED. Bo-hiya. Boss DR-220. Boss DS-1. Boss HM-2. Bread machine. Broadcast Markup Language. Bunraku. Butsudan.