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  2. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Japanese era name - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Category:History of Japan by period - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; ... Japanese people by period (25 C) A. Aftermath of World War II in Japan (4 C, 21 P) Ancient Japan (10 C, 23 P)

  6. Category:Japanese eras - Wikipedia

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  7. Asuka period - Wikipedia

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    The Asuka period (飛鳥時代, Asuka jidai) was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710, although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved greatly during the Asuka period, which is named after the Asuka region, about 25 km (16 mi) south of the modern city of Nara .

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  9. Early Modern Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern Japanese (近世日本語, kinsei nihongo) was the stage of the Japanese language after Middle Japanese and before Modern Japanese. [1] It is a period of transition that shed many of the characteristics that Middle Japanese had retained during the language's development from Old Japanese, thus becoming intelligible to modern Japanese.