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the first capital is established at Nara
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the Heian period starts
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Minamoto no Yoritomo is the first shogun of japan
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the Warring states period begins
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the Japanese encounter the Europeans for the first time
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the beginning of the Azuchi-Momoyama
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the Tokugawa shogunate begins
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the Sakoku was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate
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Matthew Perry arrives with United States navy fleet
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the Meiji Restoration restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji