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	History of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of Japan is then punctuated by alternate periods of long isolation and radical, often revolutionary, influences from the rest of the world.
		The "feudal" period of Japanese history, dominated by the powerful regional families (daimyo) and the military rule of warlords (shogun), stretched from the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries.
		During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Japan (5490 words)

	ipedia.com: History of Singapore Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Singapura re-emerged into history in the early 19th century when one of the senior feudal chiefs of the Johore Sultanate, Temenggong Abdul Rahman, moved his base from one of the Riau islands to Singapura.
		Singapore fell to the Japanese on February 15, 1942, despite the fact that its garrison outnumbered their opponents, who were critically short of supplies.
		Independent Singapore was admitted to the United Nations on September 21, 1965, and became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations on October 15 1965.
	www.ipedia.com /history_of_singapore.html (4181 words)

	Japan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the early years of the war, Japan had conquered vast new territories, including a large part of China, SE Asia, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.
		Murayama resigned as prime minister early in 1996 and was succeeded by LDP leader Ryutaro Hashimoto.
		The financial industry was rocked by scandals, leading to a number of prosecutions and, in early 1998, the resignation of the finance minister and the governor of the Bank of Japan, the nation's central bank.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Japan_history.asp (6056 words)

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