Set: Dates of Japan

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712 Kojiki (record of ancient things)
720 Nihongi (collection of myths)
10,000 years ago Ainu roots
19th C samurai backed merchants and forced Ainu to work for them during fishing season
1868 Hokkaido open to Japanese settlement
1st C Japan lived in clans
400 Yamato clan - Jimmu Tenno; Shinto influences Japan
552 Buddhist monasteries come from South Korea; Prince Shotuku - first convert
794 Fujiwara family - important; rise of samurai and Japanese feudalism
1185 Minamoto clan too over - Yoritomo Shogunate
1543 Portuguese traders came to Japan
1549 St Francis Xavier came from Spain - Spain converted Japanese to Christianity. Japanese government did not like what had happened in Philippines. Did not like minorities. Wanted to show their country as having the same kind of people.
1603 - 1868 Tokugawa Shogunate - closed off Japan
1614 Christians ordered out of Japan
1637 1000s Christians killed
1853 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
1858 Great Britain, Netherlands, and Russia granted extraterritoriality
1867 Meiji restoration
1894-95 Japan war with China - gained Taiwan, Liaotung peninsula, and Korea
1904-05 Russo-Japanese war - Japan surprisingly won
1914 - 1918 WWI; Japan - a world power?
1932 Japan conquers Manchuria
1937 Japan conquers a lot of Chinese territory
Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing
1939 - 1945 WWII
Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima bombed with a nuclear bomb
Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki bombed with a nuclear bomb
1947 new constitution for Japan - US bound to protect emperor; not allowed army
1952 US occupation ends in Japan?
1964 Tokyo Olympics
1972 US leaves Okinawa
1990s Japan scares China; Japanese economy going down

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Creator Hem143
Created May 17, 2008
Group Randolph Sevvies
Tag geography
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These are all the important dates from the geography notes on Japan.

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Hem143 : Changed 1895-95 → Japan war with China - gained Taiwan, Liatung peninsula, and Korea to 1894-95 → Japan war with China - gained Taiwan, Liatung peninsula, and Korea
Hem143 : Changed 710 → Nihongi (collection of myths) to 720 → Nihongi (collection of myths)
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  1. 1549 → St Francis Xavier came from Spain - Spain converted Japanese to Christianity. Japanese government did not like what had happened in Philippines. Did not like minorities. Wanted to show their country as having the same kind of people. - 15 misses
  2. 1603 - 1868 → Tokugawa Shogunate - closed off Japan - 14 misses
  3. 1868 → Hokkaido open to Japanese settlement - 13 misses
  4. 1867 → Meiji restoration - 13 misses
  5. 1932 → Japan conquers Manchuria - 13 misses
  6. 1543 → Portuguese traders came to Japan - 12 misses
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