The Entire 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.
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The series "Shogun" brought me here ❤
@fullauto1125
2 ай бұрын
Same
@mystaniceguy
2 ай бұрын
Same. Wish we got to see the battle of sekigahara
@waylaidsavant
2 ай бұрын
Me too
@dylanjohnson1987
2 ай бұрын
So are they just stopping the series?
@user-2c5Goi0fr8id-m
2 ай бұрын
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Open the country, stop having it be closed -America with gunboats
@AAAA-lt9hq
13 күн бұрын
America forces Japan to open, then sells it stuff to modernize Japan's military, only for Japan to fight America with that stuff, only for America to have to defeat Japan and force it into military isolation again.
Shogun brought me here. It has to be one of the best shows ever.
@user-2c5Goi0fr8id-m
2 ай бұрын
*Sahih al-Bukhari 9:87:161* “The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) said, ‘I saw a Black woman leave Medina and settle in Mahai’a. I interpreted that as a symbol of an epidemic coming to Mahai'a.’”
@thehamilton5678
Ай бұрын
its a much better book...
great video
Much love to 🇯🇵 from 🇺🇸 … Great documentary
@dave4342
18 күн бұрын
Korean and Chinese history is longer and better. Japan spent most of its history having a barbaric culture and being a barbaric race compared to its neighbors Korea and China.
History very interesting
This vid really geeat Thank you. Remind me of Shogun, Rise of the Ronin, & ghost of Tsushma
Assassin’s creed shadows brought me here ! Lmfao 😂
really good overview man
They really did a whole ass speed run lmao
I'd be happy to hear Japan being focused on! Thank you.🇯🇵
This content has many mistakes. ① Rice cultivation began in Japan in the late Jomon period. ② Yamataikoku ruled before the Yamato court. ③The portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo is Ashikaga Tadayoshi. ④The reason why the Mongolian Korean army withdrew was not the typhoon. There are many more.
@ahtheh
2 күн бұрын
If you ever read the source that western people commonly read, these are common mistakes, often times the authors knew the the oversimplification was disregarded to fit a readable book, instead of an encyclopedia However, we should correct them
Japan is a country with an extraordinary history and great breakthroughs
@TolgendavReetur
2 ай бұрын
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
Great video, Arigtato! One request though. I want Hoppou Ryodo (Four islands in Hokkaido under conflict with Russia) to be included in the map of Japan 😢
Some facts about the beginning of Japan: 1. The oldest ruin in Japan is the Sunabara ruin (砂原遺跡) of some 110,000 years ago, from which some chipped stone tools are found. This is strange given that humankind left Africa only 60,000 years ago. However, it is found that the Japanese have the highest rate of interbreeding with Denisovan, a derivative of Neandethaal, so this ruin could be related to them. 2. The world's oldest polished stoneware, which is a more important sign of civilization since even monkeys can make chipped stoneware, is found in Japan in Iwajuku ruin (岩宿遺跡) that goes back to 30,000 years ago. The oldest one in China only goes back to 15,000 years ago, and Korea, 7,000 years ago. 3. The world's oldest earthenware is found in Odai Yamamoto I Site (大平山元１遺跡) and it goes back to 16,500 years ago. Soon after this was found, China claimed it found the oldest earthenware of 17,000 years ago. Japanese scientists asked to conduct joint research but China refused and now claims that it was lost. 4. The world's oldest lacquerware is found in Torihama shell mound (鳥浜貝塚), and it goes back to 12,600 years ago. 5. There are more than 12,000 ruins of more than 10,000 years ago in the Japanese archipelago. But on the entire Korean Peninsula, there are only around 50, and this decreased to zero between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, meaning whatever the reason, they had extinct. This discontinuation never happened in the Japanese islands except for Kyushu for volcanic activities. Then, from the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, in the absence of other ruins, Japanese Jomon earthenware and Zenpokoen-fun (Japanese tomb) started appearing meaning that the first settlers of the Peninsula were the Japanese. 6. Rice is genetically estimated to have originated in the southern part of China some 11,000 years ago, and the remains of rice paddy fields go back to about 7,000 years ago. China has all of 8 DNA groups, a to h. In Japan, the oldest plant opal of rice found goes back to about 6,000 years ago, and the remains of the rice paddy field go back to some 3,000 years ago. The DNA groups of Japanese rice are a, b, and c with b the most abundant. In Korea, the oldest plant opal of rice only goes back to about 2,500 years ago, and the remaining rice paddy fields only go back some 2,600 years. There are 7 DNA groups in Koean rice, and it lacks b. This means that the Japanese rice did not come from the Korean Peninsula.
During the Edo era, Japan was actually open not to the whole world but exclusively to the Dutch. Japanese studied 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. On a side note, Japan expelled other nations like the Portuguese and Spanish because the Japanese rulers saw what happened to the Philippines and also their trade exchange rate on gold was extremely unfair to Japan where the Dutch just traded fairly.
@theinvicta957
2 ай бұрын
Japan was closed indeed at this point in history. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to make contact with the Japanese in the 16th Century, 1542 to be precise during the Sengoku period. The Japanese traded exclusively with the Portuguese who founded the ports of Nagasaki, introduced the fire arms, brought the first missionaries, had impact the many aspects on their culture. Portugal and Japanese relations go back since that time. Due to a succession crisis and a failed war in North Africa we lost independence for 60 years, forcing us to go to war alongside Spain against the Dutch, losing influence in Japan as a result. By the time Portuguese regained their independence in 1640 we were 1 year too late. Though the influence in culture never left.
@Flymoki13
Ай бұрын
@@theinvicta957 what kind of eurocentric bullshit is this? Japan had trade with a wide range of asian nations, China, Korea, Ryukyuans and so on for centuries.... The largest trading partners of Japan have always been always the Chinese and the Edo period not different from that in any regard. The Dutch only held a petite artificial island at Nagasaki Bay, meanwhile the Chinese held a significant portion of Nagasaki, the Chinatown of Nagasaki, urban place for real
@Flymoki13
Ай бұрын
@@theinvicta957 The Japanese traded "exclusively" with the Portuguese lol. You have gotta be some joker. Nagasaki was never founded by the Portuguese, otherwise it would have a Portuguese Name as expected, which it doesn't. Nagasaki remained a small scale port throughout the whole time of contact with the Portuguese, not to say Nagasaki hit its peak in the mid-17th century with Chinese Merchants half a century after the Portuguese were gone. And as a matter of Fact Hakata on northern Kyushu was the most economically important port for Japan during the entire Period of Portuguese contact. By the way Nagasaki was just one of several ports put on the Map by the Wokou sailing back and forth from China, dozens of other ports too on westernmost Japan were operation bases for the Chinese and Japanese. Most of the Portuguese cargo consisted of Chinese Silk....
@theinvicta957
Ай бұрын
@@Flymoki13 What are you yapping about? I didn’t said the Japanese didn’t trade with anybody else. I said that there was indeed a time when they were isolated from the rest of the world for 2 centuries. And that the Portuguese where the first E.U.R.O.P.E.A.N.S trading exclusively with them.
@Flymoki13
Ай бұрын
@@theinvicta957should have said the Portuguese were the first Europeans to trade exclusively with Japan rather than " the japanese exclusively traded with the Portuguese". What a big difference in meaning...
great
"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!
History of Japan by Bill Wurtz comment chain? Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes and it’s beautiful
@dweeceman
2 ай бұрын
Bill Wurtz did it better
@BaconGod.
2 ай бұрын
-100,000,000 Japan mightve not been here...
@andreacorona3290
2 ай бұрын
In the year -40000 it was here and you can walk to it, and some people walk to it
@ndj.21
2 ай бұрын
Then it got warmer and some icebergs melted and now its an island.
@Mus34679
7 күн бұрын
And now there’s more of TREEES!
How can we buy this kind of 3D map, As shown in the beginning of the video
My respect for Japan and its history 🇯🇵
I liked shogun but ghost of Tsushima brought me here phenomenal game
Can you make a video on history of Canada.
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.
@user-pi8ly8kq3h
Ай бұрын
あなたの言う事は、正しいです。縄文時代には、既に高度な文明が存在していました。近年の研究や発見で、日本の古代史の認識は大きく変わって来ています。
@shin9926e
Ай бұрын
@user-yv6mh5oc6e first of all you should study DNA. Current history needs to be confirmed by DNA history. After that Please comment. Haplogroup of Japanese people is basically group D. This is only Japan and Tibet in asia. The oldest group in asia. There is a high correlation with E. E is people like Jewish. On the other hand, Korea and China are group O. this is very common in asia.
@Kimcloud99
Ай бұрын
@user-yv6mh5oc6e왜 한족 조상이 한국이냐 일뽕 개쳐맞고 구라치고 다니지마라 이게 뭔 개소린가 했는데 한국인인게 더 짜증나네
@user-jv5rh2ho3s
Ай бұрын
Oldest ppl in Asia.🤡
@marioplayer1410
25 күн бұрын
@user-yv6mh5oc6e And Japanese always avoid pointing out they share 85-94% DNA with Koreans. FST Japanese are the closest to Koreans. Japonic Yayoi came from Korea and 30% of Japanese and Korean haplogroups are from the Yayoi-Mumon peoples. There is no hiding the truth. You are very closely related to modern Koreans.
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
@marioplayer1410
25 күн бұрын
Japanese people are 85-94% related to the Peninsula people. FST is the closest even accounting for the Jomon DNA and the huge influx of Northern Chinese into Korean gene pool. Modern Koreans are too related to Japanese genetically.
Japanese history is one of the best thing ever ❤
How can you skip Toyotomi Hideyoshi's war against Korea?
Came here after Shogun series !
Janapn is a beautiful country Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩❤️
…. and in 2013, Band-Maid releases their first album.
The KZread algorithm brought me here after I watched Shogun.
Was the first permanent capital not in Nara
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 (correction : Northeastern Asia) and brought agriculture.
@yifeili-pi1zv
2 ай бұрын
yeah, I think from the Tang Dynasty of china
@TimmyT-ri5lo
2 ай бұрын
Not really @@yifeili-pi1zv
@gsyoou
2 ай бұрын
@@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？
@TimmyT-ri5lo
2 ай бұрын
@@gsyoou i dont speak Chinese bro
@bittcome
Ай бұрын
@@gsyoou koreans
Brought here by ghost of Tsushima, strongly recommend for anyone on PlayStation.
मैं किस्मत वाला हूं जो मेरे देश में रवीश कुमार जी जैसे व्यक्तित्व ने जन्म लिया है ❤ Thank You Ravish Sir
One of the most unique countries.
I didn't understand anything Brain stop working 😂
Buddhism originated in India
@marioplayer1410
25 күн бұрын
A lot of East Asian culture was influenced heavily from South Asia.
This is where Naruto was born right
@thatstress1
2 ай бұрын
Lol
This was recommended by my brofessor
Japanese people are so intelligent and courageous.
You may encounter people in Japan who sometimes see things that look like the South or Southeast Asia, but that is because the Japanese have the blood of the indigenous Jomon people.
❤
From Samurai culture to weebs with anime girl pillows😂
The messed up thing is if they had conquered instead of closing their borders nobody could have said anything
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天皇陛下万歳(ﾉ≧∀≦)ﾉ
UK english accent is not good for me to hear.
Demon Slayer brought me here
Tone down the music in the background.... too distracting.
Lord Gautam Buddha was born in Nepal 🇳🇵🕉️❤️
@JustinriderJustinrider-dw3ie
6 күн бұрын
Don't skip history class.
@AnupThapa7
6 күн бұрын
Specially you
Completely skipped over the Japanese invasions of Korea and Ryukyu and using anachronistic maps of Japan with modern borders
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!
@limey461
Ай бұрын
No agriculture ☠️
damn yo
god land
non Muslim laugh
Land of Wano 😂
Before you know Japanese history, you need to know Korean history to know Japan Originally another name for Korea's history Baekje Japan was the country that Baekje united with its people from the mainland to create Japan, an undeniable fact in ancient Chinese history After all, Japan is a country created by the people of the mainland of Korea. If you get to know Japanese history deeply, you will know that its roots are in Korea after all What is already known among Chinese librarians and prominent scholars in Japan, and what the Emperor of Japan himself said is not a lie
@le0redd104
2 ай бұрын
The first to discover earth and explore all its landscape is indeed the hidden knowledge where we're all first came from
@le0redd104
2 ай бұрын
My wildest guess is outer this earth
@user-sl1xe7zu9w
Ай бұрын
Your fantasy is really funny!
@TimmyT-ri5lo
Ай бұрын
Korea has nothing to do with Japans history at all. Dna analyses tell us the Japanese are Jomon people
@limey461
Ай бұрын
@@TimmyT-ri5lodamn and here i was thinking japanese people were japanese! 😮
Japan started out as a branch country of Korea (Gaya, and then Baekje)
@marioplayer1410
25 күн бұрын
Japanese are genetically a good chunk more related to Koreans than to the next Northern Chinese group. During Kofun, many Chinese and Koreans moved to Japanese islands, but most likely more Korean-related DNA.
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.
@i_want_you_quiet
2 ай бұрын
Chill out lil bro its not that deep
@limey461
Ай бұрын
Worlds about to end 😢
It is a lie that the Japanese came from the Korean peninsula. Because, just like river fish can be found in any river.