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The Japanese era name (Japanese: 元号, Hepburn: gengō, "era name") or nengō (年号, year name), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "gan ( 元 ) ") meaning "origin, basis", followed ...
The tide began to turn against Japan following the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and the subsequent Battle of Guadalcanal, in which Allied troops wrested the Solomon Islands from Japanese control. [232] During this period the Japanese military was responsible for such war crimes as mistreatment of prisoners of war, massacres of civilians, and ...
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 ...
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.
Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. 22 October: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election at the third time. 30 November: Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019. 2018: 12 March
The Jitō period is a chronological timeframe during the Asuka period of Japanese history. The Jitō period describes a span of years which were considered to have begun in the 1347th year of the imperial dynasty. [1] This periodization is congruent with the reign of Empress Jitō, which is traditionally considered to have been from 686 through ...
The Japanese "national character" has been written about under the term Nihonjinron, literally meaning 'theories/discussions about the Japanese people' and referring to texts on matters that are normally the concerns of sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, and philosophy, but emphasizing the authors' assumptions or perceptions of ...
During this period, Japan experienced dramatic economic development and merchants became wealthy, and osechi became part of the culture of the chōnin (townspeople) class from the Genroku era (1688-1704) onward, and honzen-ryōri became popular among the general public. Osechi came to include a variety of dishes seasoned mainly with salt.