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  In 300 b.c. rice came to Japan. The Japanese began to grown and harvest it. As agriculture developed so did society.
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  In 1543 a ship from Portugal wrecked in southern Japan.
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  During the sixteenth century A.D. Shinto was joined by another religion.
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  In 1853 a U.S.warship commanded by Matthew C. Perry sailed into a Japanese harbor.
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  Japan reacted!
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  By the 1903 Japan was at war with China.
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  AJapanese school teacher helps his students with their writing lesson.
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  Japan started to be the capital city.
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  Japan saw the beginning of a more military kind of rule
