Evolution of Japan #historyofjapan #Japan #asianhistory

A complete overview of Japanese history: c. 600 — Yamato 1183 — Genpei War 1185 — Kamakura Shogunate 1336 — Ashikaga Shogunate / Nanboku-chō 1467 — Sengoku Japan 1568 — Oda Unification 1598 — Toyotomi Unification 1600 — Battle of Sekigahara / Tokugawa Ascendancy 1603 — Tokugawa Shogunate 1615 — Tokugawa Consolidation / Fall of Osaka 1868 — Meiji Restoration / Boshin War 1895 — Empire of Japan 1905 — Imperial Expansion 1910 — Japanese Empire / Annexation of Korea 1920 — Pacific Empire / South Seas Mandate 1932 — Manchukuo / Japanese Sphere 1937 — Second Sino-Japanese War 1941 — Southern Expansion / Pacific War 1942 — Japanese Empire at Maximum 1945 — Occupied Japan 1952 — Sovereignty Restored 1972 — Okinawa Reversion / Modern Japan