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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Yoshida Shigeru (1878–1967) Prime Minister of Japan. Walt Disney (1901–1966) Entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) German composer and pianist.
Mikimoto Kokichi (1858–1954), founder of Mikimoto. Soichiro Honda (1906–1991), co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Honda. Jujiro Matsuda (1875-1952), founder of Mazda automobile company. Michio Suzuki (1887–1982), founder of Suzuki. Eiji Toyoda (1913–2013), founder of luxury automobile manufacturer Lexus.
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵), born Shinmen Takezō (新免 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), [1] also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke and by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, [2] was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 ...
List of Japanese Nobel laureates and nominees. The Japanese Nobel Prize Laureate (2010) Akira Suzuki and Ei-ichi Negishi. Since 1949, there have been 29 Japanese laureates of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor ...
Emperor Go-Daigo (descendant of Minamoto clan), 1333–1336. Ashikaga Takauji (descendant of Minamoto clan), 1333–1336. Kyoto. Muromachi period. Ashikaga shōguns (successors of Kamakura shōguns), 1338–1568 (1573) Northern Court Emperors, 1336–1392. Sakai Kubō (Hosokawa and Miyoshi clan), 1527–1532. Regional daimyōs, during Sengoku ...
Shogun (English: / ˈʃoʊɡʌn / SHOH-gun; [ 1 ] Japanese: 将軍, romanized:shōgun, pronounced [ɕoːɡɯɴ] ⓘ), officially sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍, " Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians"), [ 2 ] was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. [ 3 ]
The following are historians and Japanologists, of any nationality, whose writings concern the history of Japan For historians who are/were Japanese people, see Category: Japanese historians . Pages in category "Historians of Japan"
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.