Japan: Timeline of Rulers and Events

A chronological history of Japan from ancient Japan to the present, covering the Japanese emperors, samurai, shoguns, Sengoku period, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Shogunate, Meiji Restoration, Imperial Japan and World War II. Captions for Trivia! Key eras & events covered / Chapters: 0:00 - YAYOI Period: 1000 BC - 250 AD 0:52 - KOFUN Period: 250 - 538 01:39 - ASUKA Period: 538 - 710 02:41 - NARA Period: 710 - 794 03:05 - HEIAN Period: 794 - 1185 05:10 - Genpei War 05:22 - KAMAKURA Period: 1185 - 1333. Kamakura Shogunate 06:46 - Mongol Invasions of Japan 07:42 - MUROMACHI Period: 1336 - 1573. Ashikaga Shogunate 09:43 - SENGOKU Period: 1467 - 1590. Warring States Period of Japan 10:50 - Rise of Oda Nobunaga 11:45 - AZUCHI-MOMOYAMA Period: 1573 - 1603. Oda & Toyotomi Unification 12:35 - Battle of Sekigahara 12:49 - EDO Period: 1603 - 1868. Tokugawa Shogunate 15:29 - Opening of Japan: Perry's Black Ships 16:10 - MEIJI Period: 1868 - 1912. Meiji Restoration 17:06 - Russo-Japanese War 17:31 - TAISHŌ Period: 1912 - 1926 18:18 - SHŌWA Period: 1926 - 1989 18:44 - Second Sino-Japanese War 19:17 - Attack on Pearl Harbor 19:53 - Hiroshima & Nagasaki 20:01 - Surrender of Japan 21:41 - HEISEI Period: 1989 - 2019 22:44 - REIWA Period: 2019 - Present ✅ Original Mapping All maps are rendered using QGIS mapping software and historically defensible territorial data, using county- and municipality-level geographic units where appropriate. Historical boundaries are reconstructed using academic research, historical sources and modern administrative polygons as geographic building blocks, with the aim of creating the most accurate possible depiction for each historical period, realm, shogunate and domain. ✅ Images Historical images are used under Creative Commons licenses or are in the public domain where applicable. Where no surviving or suitable historical image is available, silhouette placeholder images are created by the History Lists channel. ✅ Music (Licensed by Epidemic Music) Sight of Wonders - Japanese Garden Lotus Warrior - Yi Nantiro Song of Hope - David Wells Paths of a Samurai - Mandala Dreams Total Bliss (Yukemuri) - Isaku Kageyama Immovable Mountain - Isaku Kageyama Ferocious Fire - Isaku Kageyama Hokkaido - Saira Ridley The National Anthem of Japan - Worx Subscribe for more chronological timelines of global history: History Lists #HistoryOfJapan #JapaneseHistory #JapanHistory