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Ikeda also oversaw the completion of the world's first bullet train line, [279] and the widely praised 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which heralded Japan's return to international prominence. [ 280 ] Among cultural developments, the immediate post-occupation period became a golden age for Japanese cinema . [ 281 ]
This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of Sail and modern exploration).
Skyscrapers in Nakanoshima, Osaka; a major financial center in Japan. Japan has the world's fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP, after that of the United States, China and Germany; and the fifth-largest economy by PPP-adjusted GDP. [169] As of 2021, Japan's labor force is the world's eighth-largest, consisting of over 68.6 million workers. [83]
Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first successful naval-launched air raids on 5 September 1914 and during the first months of World War I from Jiaozhou Bay off Qingdao. On 6 September 1914 was the very first air-sea battle in history. 31 October: The siege of Qingdao starts as part of World War I. 1915: 18 January
Continuously inhabited since the Early Bronze Age, [191] an urban settlement called Skodra was founded by Illyrians in the 4th century BC and fortified in moenia aeacia style, [192] [193] it became the capital of the Illyrian kingdom under the Ardiaei and Labeatae and was one of the most important cities of the Balkans in ancient times. [194 ...
These characteristics place them somewhere in between hunting-gathering and agriculture. [32] An apparently domesticated variety of peach appeared very early at Jōmon sites in 6700–6400 BP (4700–4400 BC). [37] This was already similar to modern cultivated forms. This domesticated type of peach was apparently brought into Japan from China.
The study of the Paleolithic period in Japan did not begin until quite recently: the first Paleolithic site was not discovered until 1946, right after the end of World War II. [1] Due to the previous assumption that humans did not live in Japan before the Jōmon period , excavations usually stopped at the beginning of the Jōmon stratum (14,000 ...
The Kuril Islands historically belonged to Japan [98] and were first inhabited by the Ainu people before coming under the control of the Matsumae clan during the Edo Period. [99] Since 1945, Kuril has belonged to the Soviet Union and now Russia. Japan adopted a parliamentary-based political system, and the role of the Emperor became symbolic.