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  2. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Although democracy developed and modern civilian culture prospered during the Taishō period (1912–1926), Japan's powerful military had great autonomy and overruled Japan's civilian leaders in the 1920s and 1930s.

  3. Culture of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, ...

  4. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    Japan invaded Manchuria in the aftermath of Mukden incident in Northeastern China. 1932: 1 March: Manchukuo, a puppet state of Japan, is established. 28 January to 3 March: Shanghai incident begin for only two months. 15 May: Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated during the Japanese coup d'état. 1936: 26 to 28 February

  5. Japanese popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Internet in Japan did not take off until 1993 when the nation's government approved and installed its first commercial Internet service provider. Japan was the 14th country in the world to start using the internet; many reasons have been cited as the reason behind its slow movement such as bad timing, the government deeming internet access was ...

  6. Meiji era - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Edo period - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Heian period - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous art also flourished under the Fujiwara after centuries of imitating Chinese forms. Vividly colored yamato-e, Japanese style paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid-to-late Heian period, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day. As culture flourished, so did decentralization.

  9. Yamato period - Wikipedia

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    The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from this era. During the Kofun period, elements of Chinese culture continued to influence culture in the Japanese archipelago, both through waves of migration and through trade, travel, and cultural change. Archaeological evidence indicates contacts between the mainland and Japan ...