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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 A vase from the early Jōmon period (11000–7000 BC) (from History of Japan ) Image 2 Territorial extent of Yamato court during the Kofun period (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 ...
The Heian period (平安時代, Heian jidai) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. [1] It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kammu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto).
Keyhole-shaped kofun drawn in 3DCG (Nakatsuyama Kofun [] in Fujiidera, Osaka, 5th century) Kofun-period jewelry (British Museum). Kofun (from Middle Chinese kú 古 "ancient" + bjun 墳 "burial mound") [7] [8] are burial mounds built for members of the ruling class from the 3rd to the 7th centuries in Japan, [9] and the Kofun period takes its name from the distinctive earthen mounds.
The Muromachi period or Muromachi era (室町時代, Muromachi jidai), also known as the Ashikaga period or Ashikaga era (足利時代, Ashikaga jidai), is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.
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The analysis of a Jōmon sample (Ikawazu shell-mound, Tahara, Japan) and an ancient sample from the Tibetan Plateau (Chokhopani, China) found only partially shared ancestry, pointing towards a "positive genetic bottleneck" regarding the spread of haplogroup D from ancient "East Asian Highlanders" (related to modern day Tujia people, Yao people ...