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Taira is defeated and Minamoto Yoritomo with the support of the Hōjō clan seizes power, becoming the first shogun of Japan, while the emperor becomes a figurehead
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Before enacting the Goseibai Shikimoku, the Kamakura shogunate conducted trials without formal laws. After the Jōkyū War, an increasing number of land disputes between its vassals, aristocrats and peasants made fair trials indispensable.
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Japanese win: Mongols lose 70% of troops and supplies.
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Mongols sent 2 separate Forces: 900 ships, 40000 Chinese, Korean+ Mongol troops from Massan-100000 from South China in 3500 Ships. A typhoon eventually came and destroyed much of the Mongol Fleet.
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During the emperors first year of confinement there was sporadic fighting between his supporters and those of the shogunate. The commander of some of the shogunate’s forces turned and attacked Kamakura instead of the shogunate’s enemies. Caught by surprise, Hōjō Takatoki and his supporters chose to take their own lives, thus bringing to an end the 150-year regime of Japan’s first military government.
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The rivalry between the Nothern and Southern Emperors began in 1348 and ended up lasting for 3 years.
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In 1381 became inner minister, later advancing to the position of minister of the left and, in 1394, minister of state. By the end of his reign he had accomplished a complete reorganization of the civil government.
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fication of political power in the tokugawa shogunate.
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Europeans arrived in Japan in 1543,introducing the gun in the midst of a highly volatile period that Japanese historians call the "Age of the Country at War". During this period,Japan was ruled by hundreds of competing warlords.
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Tokugawa Leyasu began the Shogunate and it lasted for 268 years. The capital of the shogunate was edo (Tokyo)