Preceden

Dai Nippon

Main

Buddhism is introduced from Korea

600 B.C. - 1100 A.D.

Military Clans used war for control of territory

600 B.C. - 1100 A.D.

War between shoguns; war between Japan and Korea

1100 - 1600

Christianity introduced By St. Xavier (1549)

1549

Japan ruled by Tagugawa Dynasty of Shoguns

1600 - 1864

Resign action of Yoshinabu, the last shogun (1868)

1868

End of feudalism in Japan (1871)

1871

War with China and Korea (1874-76)

1874 - 1876

War with Russia (1904-05)

1904 - 1905

Anti-American Demonstrations in Tokyo (1924)

1924

Japan invades Manchuria (1931)

1931

Japan invades Shanghai (1932)

1932

Japan withdraws from League of Nations (1933)

1933

200,000 Chinese citizens killed by Japanese Troops (1937)

1937

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (1941)

1941

Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroyed by Atomic Bombs (1945)

1945