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  2. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    History of Japan. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [ 1 ] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.

  3. Japanese calendar - Wikipedia

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    Japanese calendar types have included a range of official and unofficial systems. At present, Japan uses the Gregorian calendar together with year designations stating the year of the reign of the current Emperor. [1] The written form starts with the year, then the month and finally the day, coinciding with the ISO 8601 standard.

  4. Nihon Shoki - Wikipedia

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    The Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihongi (日本紀, "Japanese Chronicles"). It is more elaborate and detailed than the Kojiki, the oldest, and has proven to be an important tool for historians and archaeologists ...

  5. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Japanese history, ... one year and one month later, Japan ... 2012–2013 PC remote control incident in Japan, a suspect man of 31-year-old bail ...

  6. Shōgun (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Shōgun. James Clavell’s Shōgun (1975) is a historical novel chronicling the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). It is the third of six published books in Clavell's broader Asian Saga series, though its historical setting is the earliest. By 1980 six million copies of Shōgun had ...

  7. Edo period - Wikipedia

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    For the Canadian restaurant chain, see Edo Japan (restaurant). The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 [ 1 ] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

  8. Historiography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The historiography of Japan (日本史学史 Nihon shigakushi) is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan. The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku, who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in 620 CE. The earliest extant work is the ...

  9. Heisei era - Wikipedia

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    The Heisei era (平成, Japanese: [heːseː] ⓘ) was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Emeritus Akihito from 8 January 1989 until his abdication on 30 April 2019. The Heisei era started on 8 January 1989, the day after the death of the Emperor Hirohito, when his son, Akihito, acceded to the throne as the ...