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In 1868 the capital city was moved to Eto, (now known as Tokyo). There was now a stable government under the shogunate.
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Oda Nobunaga was the son of a daimyo from a small domain on the coast of Honshu. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a soldier in Oda’s army and took over leadership after Oda’s ritual suicide. Tokugawa Ieyasu was a member of the council of five but he had his own ambitions.
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There was gradual breakdown of the Shogunates as Daimyo for for all the power during the age of the warring states.
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The government was stable for another 150 years and the Mongols were defeated between 1274 and 1281.
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The Heian period was characterised by struggles for influence among the three most powerful daimyo clans, the Fujiwara, the Minamoto and the Taira. In 1068 the Emperor Go-Sanjo reduced their power by appointing members of the rival Minamoto clan to important government offices. Go-Sanjo was the first emperor for more than two hundred years whose mother had not been a member of the Fujiwara clan.
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The Yamato rulers set up a central government based on a legal system and Chinese traditions in Nara. With support from other clan leaders, descendants of the Yamato became the first
recognised emperors of Japan.
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