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This page provides information on a variety of topics in Japanese History
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Created by undergraduate students at Marquette University, each document contains:
historical data, links to relevant web sites, and short bibliography


Topics by Historical Period

Jomon Culture (11,000- 300 BC)

Shintoism Suicide:  East vs. West

Yayoi Culture (300 BC - 250 AD)

   

Tomb Period (250 - 552)

   

Yamayo Period (552 - 710)

   

Nara Period (710 - 784)

Tale of Genji Woodblock Printing

Heian Period (784-1185)

   Heian Culture  

Kamakura Period (1185 - 1333)

Bushido
Samurai		 Samurai Armor
Craftsmanship: Swords
Zen Art

Ashigaka Period (1333 - 1600)

Oda Nobinaga Tea Ceremony

Tokugawa Period (1600 - 1868)

Edo's Alternate Attendance
Forty-Seven Ronin
Geisha
Horimono, Japanese Tattoo
Kabuki		 Christian Persecution
Zen and Catholicism
Tokugawa Samurai
Tokugawa-Meiji Transition

Meiji-Taisho Period (1868-1926)

Imperialist Japan
Russo-Japanese War		 Education System
Meiji Culture

Showa Period (1926-1989)

Atomic Bombing
Battle of Midway
Kamikaze Pilots
Rape of Nanking
Twenty-One Demands		 Post-War Industrialization
Post-Occupation Militarism
Kurosawa's Japan
Video Game Industry

Heisei Period (1989-      )

Anime and Japanese Culture
Bubble Economy		 Buddhism Today
Education
Topical Listing

Anime and Japanese Culture
Atomic Bombing
Battle of Midway
Bubble Economy
Buddhism Today
Bushido
Christian Persecution
Craftsmanship:  A Samura Sword
Edo's Alternate Attendance Policy
Education System
Education Revisited
Forty-Seven Ronin
Geisha
Heian Culture
Horimono, Japanese Tattoo
Imperialist Japan
Kabuki in the Tokugawa
Kamikaze Pilots
Kurosawa's Japan
Meiji Culture
Post-Occupation Militarism
Post-War Industrialization
Rape of Nanking
Russo-Japanese War
Oda Nobinaga
Samurai
Samurai Armor
Shintoism
Suicide:  East vs. West
Tale of Genji
Tea Ceremony
Tokugawa-Meiji Transition
Tokugawa Samurai
Twenty-One Demands
Video Game Industry
Women and Prostitution Today
Woodblock Printing
Zen and Catholicism
Zen Art