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Japan Timeline

  • 500-600
    500

    500-600

    Japan adopts Buddhism from the Chinese. Buddhism becomes on of the main ways of life in Japan.
  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 600

    Buddhism

  • 1274-1281
    Jan 1, 1274

    1274-1281

    Japanese Shogun's (SHO-GOONS) successfully defend Japan from the Chinese invaders.
  • 1853

    1853

    U.S Commadore Mathew Perry enters Japan and demands they trade with the U.S. Japan accepts trade offers until later conflicts with the U.S.
  • 1868-1912

    1868-1912

    Under Emperor Meiji's rule, Japan becomes wealthy and powerful, winning wars against China and Russia
  • 1910

    1910

    Japan takes over the Korean peninsula, until 1945 when the U.S decreases their numbers, then Korea takes the peninsula back.
  • 1923

    1923

    The Great Kanto Earthquake occurs destroying Tokyo and Yokohama. Over 140,000 die.
  • 1926

    1926

    Hirohito (A.K.A Emperor Showa) becomes the new emperor. He was accused of "war crimes" and persecuted.
  • 1931

    1931

    Japan invades Manchuria, China. 1937 the war against china starts. Later the remanents of this war spark the flame that starts WWII.
  • 1940-1941

    1940-1941

    Japan becomes an ally of Germeny and Italy in WWII. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, U.S later bombs Japan.
  • 1945

    1945

    Japan is attacked by the U.S who drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the first and latest use of nuclear weapons in wartime.

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