Today I didn't have a pre-written blog idea, so I wrote something that seemed appropriate. I'm going to talk about what happened on this day several years ago.
I find such things really interesting, I always learn something new. I'll also add a bit about the history of Japan.
The history of Japan explores past events in the area of present-day Japan and its immediate vicinity from prehistoric times to the present.
The first human settlement on the Japanese archipelago dates back to prehistoric times. The Jomon period is named after the rope-imprinted pottery, and was followed by a thousand-year gradual immigration of the Yayoi people from mainland Asia, who brought with them important new technologies. During this period, the first surviving record of Japan was created in the Book of Han from the first century. Between the fourth and ninth centuries, the Japanese kingdoms gradually united under the central government of the emperor, whose dynasty has survived to the present day. In 794, the imperial court settled in Heian, near present-day Kyoto, where it remained until 1185. The Heian period was a golden age for classical Japanese culture.
It incorporated elements of both Shinto and Buddhist customs into religious life. In the following centuries, the power of the emperor and his court was transferred to the samurai military class. The Minamoto clan established the shogunate in Kamakura, which survived two Mongol invasions. In 1333, they were defeated by a rival for the leadership of the shogunate, beginning the Muromachi period. The power of the feudal lords, the daimyo, grew, and Japan became divided among supporters of various candidates for shogun. A period of long civil war ended with unification under Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi in the 16th century.
After Hideyoshi's death in 1598, his son Ieyasu Tokugawa, a guardian and regent, took power and established the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo. The Edo period was marked by two and a half centuries of isolationism and a strict class system. The American military expedition of 1853–1854 forced Japan to open up to trade and returned power to the emperor. During the Meiji period, the new national government transformed the country into a capitalist superpower. Despite the democratic aspirations of the government under Emperor Taisho, the military's power grew.
In the 1920s and 1930s, it also repeatedly ignored official government directives and organized expeditions to the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, and the rest of China to gain territory. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 began the Pacific War. Despite heavy losses and the bombing of cities, the Japanese did not surrender. The United States ended the war by dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; The Japanese Emperor declared unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945. The post-war Allied occupation ended in 1952 with a new constitution that transformed the country into a constitutional parliamentary monarchy. Post-war Japan enjoyed high economic growth and incredible technological progress, which only slowed down in the 1990s. In 2011, Japan was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, triggering one of the largest nuclear disasters in history.
That concludes today's post, see you tomorrow!!
Rainbow Eva
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