Dates of Japan
These are all the important dates from the geography notes on Japan.
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- 1990s
- Japan scares China; Japanese economy going down
- 1914 - 1918
- WWI; Japan - a world power?
- 1937
- Japan conquers a lot of Chinese territory
- 1939 - 1945
- WWII
- 720
- Nihongi (collection of myths)
- 1614
- Christians ordered out of Japan
- 19th C
- samurai backed merchants and forced Ainu to work for them during fishing season
- 552
- Buddhist monasteries come from South Korea; Prince Shotuku - first convert
- 1894-95
- Japan war with China - gained Taiwan, Liaotung peninsula, and Korea
- 1952
- US occupation ends in Japan?
- 400
- Yamato clan - Jimmu Tenno; Shinto influences Japan
- 1549
- St Francis Xavier came from Spain - Spain converted Japanese to Christianity. Japanese government did not like what had happened in Philippines. Did not like minorities. Wanted to show their country as having the same kind of people.
- 1964
- Tokyo Olympics
- 712
- Kojiki (record of ancient things)
- Aug 9, 1945
- Nagasaki bombed with a nuclear bomb
- 1932
- Japan conquers Manchuria
- 1185
- Minamoto clan too over - Yoritomo Shogunate
- Aug 6, 1945
- Hiroshima bombed with a nuclear bomb
- 1904-05
- Russo-Japanese war - Japan surprisingly won
- 1st C
- Japan lived in clans
- Dec 7, 1941
- Pearl Harbor bombing
- 1543
- Portuguese traders came to Japan
- 1637
- 1000s Christians killed
- 1853
- Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
- 1972
- US leaves Okinawa
- 1858
- Great Britain, Netherlands, and Russia granted extraterritoriality
- 794
- Fujiwara family - important; rise of samurai and Japanese feudalism
- 1603 - 1868
- Tokugawa Shogunate - closed off Japan
- 1947
- new constitution for Japan - US bound to protect emperor; not allowed army
- 1867
- Meiji restoration
- 10,000 years ago
- Ainu roots
- 1868
- Hokkaido open to Japanese settlement