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This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, territorial and cultural changes and political events in Japan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Japan .
Nationalist politics in Japan sometimes exacerbated these tensions, such as denial of the Nanjing Massacre and other war crimes, [293] revisionist history textbooks, and visits by some Japanese politicians to Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japanese soldiers who died in wars from 1868 to 1954, but also has included convicted war criminals ...
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 [Nihon Shoki]. London: The Japan Society of the UK. ISBN 9780524053478. Brown, Delmer M.; Ichirō, Ishida, eds. (1979). The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan written in 1219 .
The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.
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 ...
Timelines of cities in Japan (9 P) Pages in category "Japanese history timelines" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day. 32 prime ministers under the Meiji Constitution had a mandate from the Emperor.
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]