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Environmental Timeline of Japan

By NickUrsinus
  • 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

    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 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.