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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. Timeline of Japan–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Japan and the United States have held formal international relations since the mid-19th century. The first encounter between the two countries to be recorded in official documents occurred in 1791 when the Lady Washington became the first American ship to visit Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to sell sea otter pelts.

  5. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Because of growing opposition within the Japanese military and the extreme right to party politicians, who they saw as corrupt and self-serving, Inukai was the last party politician to govern Japan in the pre-World War II era. [223] In February 1936 young radical officers of the Imperial Japanese Army attempted a coup d'état.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Townsend Harris - Wikipedia

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    President Franklin Pierce named Harris the first Consul General to Tokugawa Japan [7] in July 1856, where he opened the first US Consulate at the Gyokusen-ji Temple in the city of Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture, [8] soon after Commodore Matthew Perry had first opened trade between the US and Japan in 1854. At that time, Japan was not a nation ...

  9. Historiography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    During the period of the Empire of Japan (1868–1947), historians questioned, at the peril of their academic freedom, one of the ideological foundations of the new regime: the place of national myths in the national history. Marxist ideas were introduced in the 1920s and renewed in the post-World War II period with the work of Hisao Ōtsuka.