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This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, territorial and cultural changes and political events in Japan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Japan .
Nationalist politics in Japan sometimes exacerbated these tensions, such as denial of the Nanjing Massacre and other war crimes, [291] revisionist history textbooks, and visits by some Japanese politicians to Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japanese soldiers who died in wars from 1868 to 1954, but also has included convicted war criminals ...
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Since the Meiji Period (1868–1912), administrative documents had been preserved respectively by each government ministry. A library for the cabinet of the early Meiji government was established in 1873; and in 1885, this became the Cabinet Library (Naikaku Bunko), which evolved as the nation's leading specialized library of ancient Japanese and Chinese classical books and materials.
Japan's three longest-serving prime ministers and three shortest-serving prime ministers, left to right: Shinzo Abe, 8 years, 267 days; Katsura Tarō, 7 years, 330 days; and Eisaku Satō, 7 years, 242 days. Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, 54 days; Tsutomu Hata, 64 days; and Tanzan Ishibashi, 65 days.
The administrative structure of the government of the Empire of Japan on the eve of the Second World War broadly consisted of the Cabinet, the civil service, local and prefectural governments, the governments-general of Chosen (Korea) and Formosa (Taiwan) and the colonial offices. It underwent several changes during the wartime years, and was ...
Setsuzo Kotsuji:Government Officer, the only Japanese in the world at the time to speak and read Hebrew. Lieutenant-Colonel Ishiwara Kanji; Colonel Seishirō Itagaki; Industrialist Yoshisuke Aikawa; Japanese Consul in Kovno, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara; General Kiichiro Higuchi: Japanese Army contact with Manchu Jew anticommunist movement and ...