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Commodore Matthew Perry sails to Japan, showing them western technology, prompts Japan to end their long period of isolation.
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After the reignation of the shogun, the new emperor Meji seizes control of the country and unifies it after the Boshin Wars.
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Meji and the old Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, war against each other. Meji's forces whin and Yoshinobu is stripped of his power.
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Japan tries to invade China for the first time for control over the Koreas.
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Japan declares war on the Russian Empire by attacking their port. The Russians eventually sue for peace after being defeated.
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Japan starts, for the 2nd time, trying to invade China. This conflict is resolved at the end of WW2,
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On September 1st 1939 Germany starts the "Official WW2" by invading Poland, however Japan was invading China in 1937. The war ends with the US nuking Japan making them surrender.
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Japan enter World War 2
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Japan invades French Indochina or Vietnam.
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Japan bombs Hawaii's Pearl Harbor
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Japan surrendered to the U.S. after 4 years of long fighting. The country was reduced to rubble and the government was in shambles.
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U.S. general Douglas MacArthur made Japan a constitutional monachry. He made the Diet, a two house parliment he also made it so Japan could not wage war or have a large military.
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As part of the treaty the emperor had to admit that was not a god or a desendent of a god.
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The U.S. rebuilt Japan because they wanted to trade with them and introduce a democracy.
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The U.S. helped set up the government and also rebuild damaged cities from the atomic blasts.
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United Nations deems Japan trust worthy enough to be on there counsel.
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Japan is devestated by the worst earthquake in recorded history, a terrible 9.0 magnitude, This quake was followed by many after shocks and a tsunami which did as much damge as the earthquake itself.
