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The first capital is established in Nara
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The start of the Heian period
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Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes the first shogun of Japan
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Beginning of the Warring states period
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first contact between Japanese and Europeans and beginning of trade
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the Azuchi-Momoyama period begins
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the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate
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the sakoku (“locked country”) period begins
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the arrival of the United States navy fleet commanded by Matthew Perry
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The Meiji Restoration/Political revolution
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