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	Japan - History
		The latter became a Japanese protectorate in 1905 and was annexed by Japan in 1910.
		Japan withdrew from the League of Nations (which had protested the Manchurian takeover) in 1933, started a full-scale invasion of China (the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–45), and signed the Anti-Comintern pact with Germany in 1936 and a triple alliance with Germany and Italy in 1940.
		The military leadership, viewing the former USSR and the United States as chief barriers to Japanese expansion, negotiated a nonaggression pact with the USSR in April 1941, thus setting the stage for the attack on Pearl Harbor and other Pacific targets on 7 December of that year.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania/Japan-HISTORY.html (3598 words)

	History of Japan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The written history of Japan began with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century A.D., but abundant archaeological evidence demonstrates that people were living on the islands, which were actually adjoined to the mainland until about 13,000 years ago, as early as the upper paleolithic period.
		Japan was denied an indemnity, which lead to riots due to the massive amounts of public investiture and fervor in the war.
		Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_Japan (6085 words)

	History of Japan, Japan history - Allo' Expat Japan
		Japan (Japanese: Nihon or Nippon) is an island country located on the Pacific Ocean, east of China and Korea, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to Taiwan in the south.
		Though Japan did not appear in written history until 57, when it is first mentioned in Chinese records as the nation of "Wa" (in Chinese, "Wo"), or "dwarf state", these chronicles tell a much different and much more legendary history of Japan, deriving the people of Japan from the gods themselves.
		Japan's medieval era was characterized by the emergence of a ruling class of warriors, the samurai.
	www.japan.alloexpat.com /japan_information/history_of_japan.php (1532 words)

	Military history of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The military history of Japan is characterized by a long period of feudal wars, followed by domestic stability, and then foreign conquest.
		Japan surrendered on August 15 1945 and a formal Instrument of Surrender was signed on 1945-09-02, on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		This period in Japanese history is known as the occupation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_history_of_Japan (2930 words)

	Japan, 501 CE to the mid-1100s
		Buddhism may have arrived in Japan earlier, but the commonly believed time of its arrival in Japan was around the mid-500s, when the Korean king of Paekche was fighting the king of neighboring Silla and wished to ally himself with Japan.
		Japan's emperor sent no troops to Korea, and in 562 Japan was forced from its possession in Korea that it called Mimana.
		Japan was growing also in population, and they were expanding against indigenous people, including the Ainu, who, on the main island, Honshu, were overrun and pushed farther north.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h07japan.htm (2678 words)

	History of Japan/Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
		Japan thus became a constitutional monarchy, with a bicameral legislature (Diet) composed of a house of peers and an elected lower house.
		The Japanese military felt, however, that the politicians were compromising the nation's security and the emperor's right to supreme command.
		Right-wing terrorism increased (3 of Japan's 11 prime ministers between 1918 and 1932 were assassinated), and in 1931 Japanese officers in Manchuria acted without government authorization in precipitating the Mukden Incident and occupying Manchuria.
	www.shotokai.cl /otros_datos/japan_history.html (3955 words)

	World History Blog: History of Japan
		Japan comprises over three thousand islands, the largest of which are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for 97% of land area.
		Traditional Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family.
		During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers.
	www.worldhistoryblog.com /2007/09/history-of-japan.html (519 words)

	History of Japan
		Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order.
		The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 followed Japan's signing of the "anti-Comintern pact" with Nazi Germany the previous year and was part of a chain of developments culminating in the Japanese attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
		Manchukuo was dissolved, and Manchuria was returned to China; Japan renounced all claims to Formosa; Korea was granted independence; southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles were occupied by the U.S.S.R.; and the United States became the sole administering authority of the Ryukyu, Bonin, and Volcano Islands.
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/japan.html (1467 words)

	Japanese history: Edo Period
		In 1633, shogun Iemitsu forbade travelling abroad and almost completely isolated Japan in 1639 by reducing the contacts to the outside world to very limited trade relations with China and the Netherlands in the port of Nagasaki.
		The most important philosophy of Tokugawa Japan was Neo-Confucianism, stressing the importance of morals, education and hierarchical order in the government and society: A strict four class system existed during the Edo period: at the top of the social hierarchy stood the samurai, followed by the peasants, artisans and merchants.
		In addition, Japan regularly experienced natural disasters and years of famine that caused riots and further financial problems for the central government and the daimyo.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2128.html (742 words)

	Japan History \| iExplore
		Japan was subject to strong Chinese and Korean influence thereafter, but was unable to develop a strong centralized State based on the Chinese model.
		The actual unification of Japan began during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), during which a national administrative hierarchy was forged from the family structures of the ruling class.
		Japan’s imperial ambitions in the Far East developed during this period, exemplified by the occupation of Korea in 1905 after the defeat of its main imperial rival, Russia, in a war that had begun the previous year.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Japan/History (2150 words)

	CHAPTER 23: World War II: The War Against Japan
		Japan believed it necessary to destroy or neutralize American striking power in the Pacific—the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the U.S. Far East Air Force in the Philippines—before moving southward and eastward to occupy Malaya, the Netherlands Indies, the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, the Gilbert Islands, Thailand, and Burma.
		Japan thought that the Allies would wear themselves out in fruitless frontal assaults against the perimeter and would ultimately settle for a negotiated peace that would leave it in possession of most of its conquests.
		In the final analysis Japan lost because the country did not have the means to fight a total war against the combination of industrial, air, naval, and human resources represented by the United States and its Allies.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-23.htm (10096 words)

	History of Japan
		The second successor, Tokugawa Ieyasu, succeeded Hideyoshi's unifed Japan, and sat the throne of shogun in 1603.
		Japan was suddenly dragged out to the stage of world-wide imperialistic politics.
		In this era, Japan was a new kid on the block in world-wide imperialism, The leaders of the government frequently visited western countries, to learned how to govern and grow the nation.
	www2.kanawa.com /japan/history.html (4289 words)

	The Infography about the Military History of Japan
		Heavenly Warriors : The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500 1300.
		Edgerton, Robert B. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military.
		Japan Subdued: The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War in the Pacific.
	www.infography.com /content/188492554793.html (424 words)

	Military History: Invasion Japan
		While “the rest is history” concerning the first atomic bomb successfully tested on July 16, 1945 in the desert outside Alamogordo, New Mexico, there have always been “what if” conjecturers regarding the decisions that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		The selections were based on the criteria that the city had military significance from its factories, harbor or other facilities, and that the city that had suffered little prior bombing in order to demonstrate the maximum effect of the atomic bomb.
		Japan later requested assistance from ally Germany but it is not known how much material Japan received.
	www.combatsim.com /review.php?id=721 (9397 words)

	Japanese history: Militarism and World War II
		In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China.
		Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
		However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2129.html (693 words)

	Japan's Continuing Obsession with Militarism
		History News Network Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.
		Americans to be sure do not acknowledge the complicated history that led up to war with Japan, barely acknowledging the psychological impact of FDR's ban on oil imports, which did indeed lead to the outbreak of war four months later.
		That they are is a warning from history that we should probably not expect the Iraqis to view our rule benignly even if we perform our duty well, which up to now we have not.
	hnn.us /articles/1475.html (1814 words)

	Japan, history - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
		The history of Japan, the large island nation off the coast of China and Korea, is in three stages: the period of interaction with China and East Asia, isolation, and opening to the world.
		The mythology of ancient Japan is contained within the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) which records the creation myth of Japan and its lineage of Emperors to the Sun Goddess Amaratsu.
		During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia.
	en.citizendium.org /wiki/Japan,_history (1856 words)

	Hanami Web - History of Japan
		Buddhism arrived to Japan in 6th century, and it was perhaps the one single most important feature of imported culture.
		Japan was in steady decline in food and supplies, thus the clans started to fight for their living space, and conquer land for themselves.
		Japan also witnessed the first Mongol Invasion attempt in the island of Kyushu.
	www.hanamiweb.com /history_of_japan.html (2268 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Japan shelves military aid flight
		Japan has decided not to use a military plane to deliver relief supplies to China for victims of the Sichuan quake.
		Japan has already sent civilian rescue and medical teams to help quake survivors in south-west China.
		The plan to fly in a C-130 military aircraft carrying tents and blankets emerged earlier in the week.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/7426899.stm (458 words)

	Japan Omnibus - History - Early Japanese History
		Although legend has it that Japan was founded in 660BC, archaeologists agree that settlement in the Japanese archpelago dates back as far as 100,000 years.
		After a period of corruption under the Fujiwara and later the Taira clan, who effectively ruled the country as regents, Japan entered a medieval period of feudalism and saw the advent of a samurai (warrior) class.
		But the emperor, too, was lacking in foresight and in turn was overthrown by the Ashikaga clan and military rule restored, this time from Kyoto.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/history1.shtml (1016 words)

	Military Archival Library
		Most of the documents were destroyed by the military at the surrender of Japan in World War II, and the rest were scattered.
		Rikugunsho Dainikki, or Document Files of the Military of the Army, is the archive dating from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to 1942.
		Your entrance is limited to the Military Archival Library and dining facility behind the guard's office.
	www.nids.go.jp /english/military_history/military_archives/index.html (734 words)

	Military History Online
		Military history often overlooks the contributions of those whose efforts are vital to winning, but don't garner the headlines.
		Japan and the United States emerged as world powers at the beginning of the 20th Century, and soon challenged European Powers' dominance in Asia and the Pacific.
		Japan's challenge was aimed at displacing European powers and inserting itself as a colonial master.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com (3076 words)

	Amazon.fr : Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military: Livres en anglais: Robert B. Edgerton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amazon.fr : Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military: Livres en anglais: Robert B. Edgerton
		Only a few decades later, the Japanese military was behaving barbarously to enemy soldiers and civilians alike, committing acts of murder, torture, and even cannibalism.
		Japan evolved from a nation of small peasant farmers to a major power in just 40 years and Japan felt inferior to European powers until its victory over Russia in 1905.
	www.amazon.fr /Warriors-Rising-Sun-Japanese-Military/dp/0813336007 (459 words)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The author describes and analyzes the complex questions of identity of Okinawa, with its separate culture and history from Japan, large American military presence, and religions connected with shamanism and agricultural rituals.
		"Japan faces new security challenges due to the rise of China, the potential nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and the distraction of the United States forces caused by the War on Terror.
		Using many previously classified records from the British and Australian national archives, it describes how the image of Japan generated by intelligence during this period led Britain to abrogate the alliance, to eschew a policy of appeasement in the 1930s and fatally to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/japan06.htm (4667 words)

	Background Essay no. 131 \| Japanese History \| AskAsia.org
		Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan).
		Japan accepts the U.S. demands and opens its door for the first time in two centuries.
		Draw on your knowledge of Japan's geography, history, and cultural values to predict how its influence will be modified by other peoples and nations.
	www.askasia.org /teachers/essays/essay.php?no=131 (1120 words)

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