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  2. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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    Incipient Jōmon pottery (14th–8th millennium BC) Tokyo National Museum, Japan Jomon flame-style pottery, 3,000 BC, excavated at the Iwanohara site, Niigata Prefecture. The earliest pottery in Japan was made at or before the start of the Incipient Jōmon period. Small fragments, dated to 14,500 BC, were found at the Odai Yamamoto I site in 1998.

  3. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    During the Meiji period, Japan underwent a rapid transition towards an industrial economy. [194] Both the Japanese government and private entrepreneurs adopted Western technology and knowledge to create factories capable of producing a wide range of goods. [195] By the end of the period, the majority of Japan's exports were manufactured goods ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Kamegaoka Stone Age Site - Wikipedia

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    The site has been known and excavated since the Edo period, when clay figurines and pottery were discovered in 1622 when Tsugaru Nobuhira, the second daimyō of Tsugaru Domain built a fortification. Some examples of the ancient pottery was prized for the Japanese tea ceremony and some examples, along with clay figurines were even exported to ...

  6. Jōmon pottery - Wikipedia

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    Jomon flame-style pottery, 3,000 BC, excavated at the Iwanohara site, Niigata Prefecture Incipient Jomon rope pottery 10000–8000 BCE [citation needed] Middle Jomon Period rope pottery 5000–4000 BCE Jomon vessel 3000–2000 BCE, Flame-style Pottery [de; ja; pl] (Flamboyant Ceramic, Kaen-doki) Spray style Jōmon pottery

  7. Jōmon people - Wikipedia

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    Jōmon (縄文, Jōmon), sometimes written as Jomon (American English /ˈdʒoʊˌmɑːn/ JOH-mahn, British English /ˈdʒəʊmɒn/ JOH-mon), [11] literally meaning "cord-marked" or "cord pattern," is a Japanese word coined by American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist Edward S. Morse in his book Shell Mounds of Omori (1879) which he wrote after he discovered sherds of cord-marked ...

  8. Sannai-Maruyama Site - Wikipedia

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    The Sannai-Maruyama Site is the centerpiece of the Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan, a group of Jōmon period archaeological sites in Hokkaidō and northern Tōhoku that was recommended by Japan in 2020 for inclusion to the UNESCO World Heritage List, under criteria iii and iv.

  9. Portal:Ancient Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Kofun period (古墳時代, Kofun jidai) is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period .