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The name for Japan in Japanese is written using the kanji 日本 and is pronounced Nihon or Nippon. [11] Before 日本 was adopted in the early 8th century, the country was known in China as Wa (倭, changed in Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. [12]
Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.
In the 16th century in Malacca, Portuguese traders first heard from Indonesian and Malay the names Jepang, Jipang, and Jepun. [7] In 1577 it was first recorded in English, spelled Giapan . [ 7 ] At the end of the 16th century, Portuguese missionaries came to coastal islands of Japan and created brief grammars and dictionaries of Middle Japanese ...
Mentioned in inscription of Hantang (1135), Jepun inscription (1144) and Talan inscription (1058). 1159–1171 Çri Maharaja Rakai Sirikan çri Sarwweçwara Janardanawatara Wijaya Agrajasama Singhadani Waryyawïryya Parakrama Digjayottunggadewa (Çri Sarvesvara) Mentioned in inscription of Kahyunan and Padlegan II inscription (1159). 1171–1181
Declaration of Rukun Negara: 1970: New Economic Policy: 1971–1990: Federal Territory of KL: 1974: 1977 Kelantan Emergency: 1977: Pedra Branca dispute: 1979–2008:
Hirohito as an infant in 1902 Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito, and Yasuhito. Hirohito was born on 29 April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, [2] the first son of 21-year-old Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako, the future Empress Teimei. [3]
The Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a communist guerrilla army that resisted the Japanese occupation of Malaya from 1941 to 1945 in World War II.Composed mainly of ethnic Chinese guerrilla fighters, the MPAJA was the largest anti-Japanese resistance group in Malaya.
The text, in the Malay language, reads "Ya Allah, terpeliharalah kami oleh tentera Jepun daripada aniayai" (O Allah, we are saved from persecution by the Japanese troops). The Tokyo-based Asahi Shimbun newspaper and the Osaka-based Mainichi Shimbun began publication in Malay in both Borneo and the Celebes Island , carrying news on behalf of the ...