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Period: 14,000 BCE to 300 BCE
Jōmon Period
People live by hunting and gathering.
Distant from last period due to pottery. Due to shallow ocean and tidal marshes they used a lot of resources from the water. -
Period: 300 BCE to 300
Yayoi Period
Start of rice cultivation and use of metal utensils. Started by Korean migration. -
Period: 710 to 784
Nara Period
Beginning of Japanese Literature! Such as the Kojiki Kojiki split in to 3 parts:
Book 1: About gods and deities creating the world.
Book 2: About the first Emperor of Japan
Book 3: About more Emperors but no deities -
Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan
Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan See photo of him escaping assassination on the ship of Yojibei -
Japan becomes completely closed to the world
No trade or anyone going in or out -
Japan and the United States conclude the “Treaty of Peace and Amity”, ending Japan's seclusion
People viewed the treaty as unfavorable for Japan -
World War II starts
Japan has had a rocky relationship with the West for a while. -
Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war.
Japan, in general, adverse to nuclear power After the war, relationship with the West improved gradually. -
First nuclear power plant in Japan built
First nuclear power plant built in Japan. “The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute makes Japan the 11th country to generate electric power by atomic energy at Tōkai-mura.”-Hoover, William D.. 2011. Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan -
Great East Japan Earthquake
Causes the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster -
Period: to
Now
Japan shut down most of its Nuclear Power Plants Now looking into more other ways of generating power. Has a lot of rules in place to help make Japan more environmentally friendly.
