I know most about the Early Showa period, which covers World War II. The most fascinating, and shows how Japanese history just climaxes at this point.
Jomon (prehistory)
Yayoi (prehistory)
Kofun & asuka (early kingdoms : 300-710)
Nara & Heian (710-1185)
Kamakura (first, Minamoto-Hojo shogunate : 1185-1333)
Muromachi (Ashikaga shogunate 1333-1568)
Azuchi-Momoyama (great leaders : 1568-1600)
Edo (the closed country & Tokugawa shogunate : 1600-1867)
Bakumatsu (late Edo)
Meiji (the Westernization 1868-1912)
Taisho (social upheavals : 1912-1926)
Early Showa (militarism and WWII : 1926-1945)
US Occupation (1945-1952)
Late Showa (peace and economic miracle : 1952-1989)
Heisei (economic decline and post-modern culture)
I know most about the Early Showa period, which covers World War II. The most fascinating, and shows how Japanese history just climaxes at this point.
From feudalism to industry in 30 years. Just blows my mind.
yeah, and you did it (from what i know) pretty hasle free, unlike hard-headed russians who wiped out a 10th of their population.
Who was Hitler?... a petty dictator living in the times of Stalin.
Everyone is intelligent...some before; some afterwards.
... my mood while I've been on this forum... in reverse order!!! hehe
True.Originally Posted by blessed
But the Meiji government certainly was authoritarian. Under a facade of constitutional and political rule - Meiji Japan was one of the most authoritarian nations in the world - similar to the likes of today's Iran. Why? Simple - it was a theocratic regime based on Shintoism, which had been in decline for centuries and which had, since the sixth century, played second fiddle to the more secterian Buddhist religion.
All political parties had to be registered with the government. Radicals and many liberals were persecuted by their right-wing and conservative/royalist counterparts. This is before the political arrests of the 1930s.
Indeed, the period of thirty years between 1868 and 1898 transformed a feudalistic, authoritarian and backward country into a modern, powerful, and yet authoritarian country.
Kofun & asuka (early kingdoms : 300-710)
Nara & Heian (710-1185)
Kamakura (first, Minamoto-Hojo shogunate : 1185-1333)
Muromachi (Ashikaga shogunate 1333-1568)
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