Japanese History (1603 - Present)

Periods

Tokugawa Period

1850 - 1868

Meiji Period

1868 - 1912

Taisho Period

1912 - 1926

Showa Period

1926 - 1989

Heisei Period

1989 - 2013

Sub-Periods

"Bakumatsu" Era

1853 - 1868

The "Road to War" Period

1931 - 1941

"U.S. Occupation of Japan" Period

1945 - 1951

"High Growth" Period

1950 - 1989

"Lost Decade" Period

1990 - 2000

Events

Perry's Black Ships

1853

Treaty of Amity and Commerce

1858

Boshin War

1868 - 1869

Iwakura Mission

1871

Seinan Rebellion/War of the Southwest

01/01/1877 - 09/01/1877

Meiji Constitution

1890 - 1947

Sino-Japanese War (First)

1894 - 1895

Treaty of Shimonoseki

1895

Triple Intervention

1895

Anglo-Japanese Alliance

01/30/1902

Russo-Japanese War

1904 - 1905

Treaty of Portsmouth

1905

Battle of Tsushime/Battle of the Sea of Japan

05/27/1905

World War I

1914 - 1918

Siberian Intervention

1918

March 1st Movement

03/01/1919

Washington Naval Treaty

1922

Kanto Earthquake

1923

Establishment of Manchukuo

1931

Manchurian Incident

1931

February 26th Incident

02/06/1936

Sino-Japanese War (Second)

1937 - 1945

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

08/01/1937

Nanjing Massacre

12/01/1937

Nomohan

1939

World War II

1939 - 1945

Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

06/29/1940

Tripartite Pact

09/27/1940

Hull Note

11/26/1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

12/07/1941

Japanese Invasion Of Burma

1942

Bengal Famine

1943

Strategic Bombing Campaigns

1944 - 1945

Soviet Offensive

1945

Battle of Okinawa

04/1945 - 06/1945

Tokyo War Tribunal

04/29/1946

Constitution of Japan

1947 - 2013

Ministry of International Trade and Industry Created

1949

Korean War

1950 - 1953

Japanese-U.S. Security Treaty

09/08/1951

San Francisco Peace Treaty