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  2. List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868 - Wikipedia

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    Alessandro Valignano (1579, Italy) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism to the Far East, and especially to Japan. He first visited Japan in 1579. William Adams (1600, England) – The first Englishman to reach Japan. Among the first Westerners to become a samurai, under Shōgun ...

  3. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    This marked the start of Shōwa period, and also the last period of the Empire of Japan (during the final year of World War II). 1927: January to April: Shōwa financial crisis begins. 30 December: Tokyo Metro Ginza Line between Ueno and Asakusa was the first subway line built in Japan. [6] 1928: 3 to 11 May: Jinan incident. 28 June: Huanggutun ...

  4. List of emperors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Timeline of Tokyo - Wikipedia

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    Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16413-8. Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, ed. (2008). Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860. Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America. ISBN 978-0-295-98786-6. Stephen Mansfield (2009). Tokyo: a Cultural ...

  6. List of shoguns - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  7. Japanese era name - Wikipedia

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    1868–1912 CE 45 years Classic of Changes: In 1873 Japan adopted the Seireki (西暦), the Common Era. Nowadays, Japanese people know it as well as the regnal eras. Prior to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1873, the reference calendar was based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Emperor Taishō 大正天皇 (r. 1912–1926 CE ...

  8. Timeline of Kyoto - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu island, Japan This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  9. 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 ...