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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 .
The following are images from various Ancient Japan-related articles on Wikipedia. Image 1 Middle Jōmon vase (2000 BC) (from History of Japan ) Image 2 Later Three-Year War in the 11th century (from 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 ...
This is a list of years in Japan. See also the timeline of Japanese history . For only articles about years in Japan that have been written, see Category:Years in Japan .
The terms Tennō ('Emperor', 天皇), as well as Nihon ('Japan', 日本), were not adopted until the late 7th century AD. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] In the nengō system which has been in use since the late 7th century, years are numbered using the Japanese era name and the number of years which have elapsed since the start of that nengō era.
Concentrated efforts by the imperial court to record its history produced the first works of Japanese literature during the Nara period. Works such as the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki were political, used to record and therefore justify and establish the supremacy of the rule of the emperors within Japan.
Toggle Ancient/Classical Japan subsection. 1.1 Jōmon Period. 1.2 Yayoi Period. 1.3 Kofun period. ... Military history of Japan; Battles of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Ancient Japan (10 C, 23 P) Azuchi–Momoyama period (9 C, 5 P) C. ... Pages in category "History of Japan by period" This category contains only the following page.