The History of Japan
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The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38-39,000 years ago. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia. During this period, the first known written reference to Japan was recorded in the Chinese Book of Han in the first century AD.
Around the 3rd century BC, the Yayoi people from the continent immigrated to the Japanese archipelago and introduced iron technology and agricultural civilization. Because they had an agricultural civilization, the population of the Yayoi began to grow rapidly and ultimately overwhelmed the Jōmon people, natives of the Japanese archipelago who were hunter-gatherers. Between the fourth and ninth centuries, Japan's many kingdoms and tribes gradually came to be unified under a centralized government, nominally controlled by the Emperor of Japan. The imperial dynasty established at this time continues to this day, albeit in an almost entirely ceremonial role. In 794, a new imperial capital was established at Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto), marking the beginning of the Heian period, which lasted until 1185. The Heian period is considered a golden age of classical Japanese culture. Japanese religious life from this time and onwards was a mix of native Shinto practices and Buddhism.
Over the following centuries, the power of the imperial house decreased, passing first to great clans of civilian aristocrats - most notably the Fujiwara - and then to the military clans and their armies of samurai. The Minamoto clan under Minamoto no Yoritomo emerged victorious from the Genpei War of 1180-85, defeating their rival military clan, the Taira. After seizing power, Yoritomo set up his capital in Kamakura and took the title of shōgun. In 1274 and 1281, the Kamakura shogunate withstood two Mongol invasions, but in 1333 it was toppled by a rival claimant to the shogunate, ushering in the Muromachi period. During this period, regional warlords called daimyō grew in power at the expense of the shōgun. Eventually, Japan descended into a period of civil war. Over the course of the late 16th century, Japan was reunified under the leadership of the prominent daimyō Oda Nobunaga and his successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After Toyotomi's death in 1598, Tokugawa Ieyasu came to power and was appointed shōgun by the emperor. The Tokugawa shogunate, which governed from Edo (modern Tokyo), presided over a prosperous and peaceful era known as the Edo period (1600-1868). The Tokugawa shogunate imposed a strict class system on Japanese society and cut off almost all contact with the outside world.
Portugal and Japan came into contact in 1543, when the Portuguese became the first Europeans to reach Japan by landing in the southern archipelago. They had a significant impact on Japan, even in this initial limited interaction, introducing firearms to Japanese warfare. The American Perry Expedition in 1853-54 more completely ended Japan's seclusion; this contributed to the fall of the shogunate and the return of power to the emperor during the Boshin War in 1868. The new national leadership of the following Meiji era (1868-1912) transformed the isolated feudal island country into an empire that closely followed Western models and became a great power. Although democracy developed and modern civilian culture prospered during the Taishō period (1912-1926), Japan's powerful military had great autonomy and overruled Japan's civilian leaders in the 1920s and 1930s. The Japanese military invaded Manchuria in 1931, and from 1937 the conflict escalated into a prolonged war with China. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 led to war with the United States and its allies. Japan's forces soon became overextended, but the military held out in spite of Allied air attacks that inflicted severe damage on population centers. Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender on 15 August 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
The Allies occupied Japan until 1952, during which a new constitution was enacted in 1947 that transformed Japan into the constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy it is today. After 1955, Japan enjoyed very high economic growth under the governance of the Liberal Democratic Party, and became a world economic powerhouse. Since the Lost Decade of the 1990s, Japanese economic growth has slowed.
The series "Shogun" brought me here ❤
Same
Same. Wish we got to see the battle of sekigahara
Me too
We can not explain Japanese history without Jomon. Jomon people are ancient Japanese people. They were not immigrant who came from Korea or Chinese. they were the oldest people in Asia. Basically they were not in Korea and Chinese. this is important history for east Asia.
That is, we cannot explain our history without DNA analysis.
Open the country, stop having it be closed
-America with gunboats
Japan was actually open not to the whole world but exclusively to the Dutch. Japanese studid Dutch literature and kept up with what was happening in the world. This is one of the reasons why Japan was able to successfully go through industrial revolution immediately after the Meiji restoration.
Much love to 🇯🇵 from 🇺🇸 … Great documentary
great video
I'd be happy to hear Japan being focused on! Thank you.🇯🇵
いきなり半島からの映像は語弊があるかな😢東南アジアやタイに近いものを感じる
History of Japan by Bill Wurtz comment chain?
Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes and it’s beautiful
Bill Wurtz did it better
-100,000,000 Japan mightve not been here...
"Nau do Trato" in portuguese.
Há uma clara relação entre a chegada dos primeiros europeus, os Portugueses, (com a introdução das armas, "nanban art", etc.) e a unificação do Japão e, consequentemente o astronómico desenvolvimento do Japão. Thank you.
Great! I've been interested in Japan so much lately :) This should be interesting!
really good overview man
great
One of the most unique countries.
Japanese history is one of the best thing ever ❤
Japan is a country with an extraordinary history and great breakthroughs
no its not, its a punch of peasants fightant on an island until the Europeans showed them what real wizdom and power is . Japan is an overrated shithole
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The CZcams algorithm brought me here after I watched Shogun.
Well looks like you’ve skipped the Jomon people who were hunter gatherers and lived in Japan for thousands of years before the Yayoi people migrated from Central Asia and brought agriculture.
yeah, I think from the Tang Dynasty of china
Not really @@yifeili-pi1zv
@@TimmyT-ri5lo 根据考古亚洲大陆最早一批人是出现在中央的黄河流域 日本本岛并没有原住民和原始人 是谁教会了他们生活文明？
@@gsyoou i dont speak Chinese bro
This is where Naruto was born right
Lol
god land
VERY poor start to video with a huge historical error.
First people from mainland Asia to Japan 40,000 years ago DID NOT BRING AGRICULTURE OR METAL WORKS!
You are approx 30,000 years to early!!!
Happy to be corrected but you will have to re-write the history books!
Completely skipped over the Japanese invasions of Korea and Ryukyu and using anachronistic maps of Japan with modern borders
Great video
HORRIBLE pronunciation
Daimyo "Die-myo
Kyoto NOT Kijiiyooh OMFG there is no I in Kyoto!
Nor is there in Kyushu (not "Kiyushu")
Eeeedo are you kidding me?
Eh? Doh rhymes with Play-Doh.
Chill out lil bro its not that deep