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 | | That period was succeeded around AD 250 by the Kofun period, characterized by the establishment of strong military states. |
 | | The Great [[Buddha at Todaiji, Nara, originally cast in AD 752.]] According to traditional Japanese mythology, Japan was founded in the 7th century BC by the ancestral Emperor Jimmu, who started a line of emperors that remains unbroken to this day. |
 | | Recorded Japanese history began in the 5th and 6th centuries AD, when the Chinese writing system, Buddhism, and other Chinese culture was introduced by Baekje, a kingdom in Korea. |
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