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Miniature model of the ancient capital Heian-kyō (from History of Japan) Image 12 Prince Shōtoku was a semi-legendary regent of the Asuka period , and considered to be the first major sponsor of Buddhism in Japan.
Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender on 15 August 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The Allies occupied Japan until 1952, during which a new constitution was enacted in 1947 that transformed Japan into the constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy it is today.
Around 23 million years ago, western Japan was a coastal region of the Eurasia continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled parts of Japan which become modern Chūgoku region and Kyushu eastward, opening the Sea of Japan (simultaneously with the Sea of Okhotsk) around 15–20 million years ago, with likely freshwater lake state before the sea has rushed in. [4 ...
Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional ...
Geography of Japan; ... [15] Japan is located in the northwestern Ring of Fire ... The Japanese archipelago has been difficult to reach since ancient history.
Category: Historical geography of Japan. ... Demographic history of Japan (2 P) F. Former countries in Japanese history (7 C, 28 P) Former populated places in Japan ...
The mythology of ancient Japan is contained within the Kojiki ('Records of Ancient Matters') which describes the creation myth of Japan and its lineage of Emperors to the Sun Goddess Amaterasu. Ancient pottery has been uncovered in Japan, particularly in Kyushu , that points to two major periods: the Jōmon (c. 7,500–250 BC, 縄文時代 ...
The Kofun period (古墳時代, Kofun-jidai) is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from this era. During the Kofun period , elements of Chinese culture continued to influence culture in the Japanese archipelago , both through waves of migration and through trade ...