Ishida, in his home Sawayama Castle, met with Outani Yoshitsugu, Mashita Nagamori, and Ankokuji Ekei. Here, they forged the alliance, and invited Mori Terumoto to be its head. Ishida then officially declared war on Tokugawa and lay siege to the Fushimi Castle, garrisoned by Tokugawa retainer Torii Mototada on July 19. Afterwards, the western forces captured various Tokugawa bases in the Kansai region. Within a month, the western forces had moved in ...

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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. This time is usually divided into periods following the reigning family of the shogun: History of Japan - Kamakura Period. Main article: Kamakura Period The Kamakura period 1185 to 1333 is a period that marks the governance of the Kamakura Shogunate; officially established in 1192 b ...

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Government-industry cooperation, aid from the United States following World War II, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, emphasis on education, and a comparatively small defense allocation have helped Japan advance with extraordinary speed to become the second largest economy in the world, after the U.S. For three decades, overall real economic growth had been spectacular: a 10% average in the 1960s, a 5% average in the 1970s, and a 4% average in the 1980s. Growth slowed markedly in the 1990s largely due to the after-effects of o ...

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The Onin War began when Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa proclaimed his brother, Yoshimi, heir to the shogunate. Yoshimasa even dragged his brother out of a monastery to fulfill his proclamation. A year later, upon the birth of his son Yoshihisa, Yoshimasa changed his mind and decided his son was a better candidate. At the same time though, the Yamana and Hosokawa clans had spent years as rivals, interfering in the affairs of other families and clans with varying degrees of success. With two potential candidates to be the next shogun, it was ...

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This is a list of Japanese politicians who have not served as Prime Minister of Japan. Abe Shintaro Arai Hakuseki Doi Takako Enomoto Takeaki Fukuda Yasuo (current Head of LDP Cabinet) Fujino Makiko Fujio Masayuki Ishihara Shintaro Ito Masayoshi Kajiyama Seiroku Katayama Satsuki Kan Naoto Kanemaru Shin Kuranari Tadashi Ota Fusae Okazaki Katsuo Ōwada Hisashi Ozawa Ichirō See also:

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Nobunaga has been used extensively as a reference in fiction, appearing in video games (such as Onimusha, Kessen, Sengoku Basara, and the Koei series Nobunaga's Ambition), manga, and anime (such as Flame of Recca, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Hunter x Hunter, and InuYasha). He is often portrayed as a ruthless villain, possesing demonic powers. Nobunaga is also a central charact ...

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Militarily, Oda's revolutionary dreaming not only changed the way war was fought in Japan, but also in turn made one of the most modernized forces in the world at that time. He developed, implemented, and expanded the use of long pikes, firearms, ironclad ships, and castle fortifications in accordance with the expanded mass battles of the period. Oda also instituted a specialized warrior class system and appointed his retainers and subjects to positions based on ability, not wholly based on name, rank, or family relationship as in prior peri ...

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On 1564, the long time supporter and oppresor Nagayoshi died of illness and Yoshiteru saw an opportunity to fully reclaim the shogun's authority. However, Matsunaga Hisahide and three member council of Miyoshi who wanted to rule just as Nagayoshi had was willing to go to any length to remove Yoshiteru from the power and to have Ashikaga Yoshihide as the puppet shogun. On 1565, Hisahide, three Miyoshi and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu laid a siege against a collection of buildings what would later become Nijo Castle where Yoshiteru lived. Yoshite ...

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The ensuing period of Ashikaga rule (1336–1573) was called Muromachi for the district in which its headquarters were in Kyōto after the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence in 1378. What distinguished the Ashikaga bakufu from that of Kamakura was that, whereas Kamakura had existed in equilibrium with the Kyōto court, Ashikaga took over the remnants of the imperial government. Nevertheless, the Ashikaga bakufu was not as strong as the Kamakura had been and was greatly preoccupied by the civil war. Not until the rule of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (as third shogun, 1368–94, and chanc ...

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History of Japan - Kofun era Also known as the Yamato Period. Main article: Yamato period First Part: Kofun era Second Part: Asuka At about AD 405, the Japanese court officially adopted the Chinese writing system introduced via Korea. During the sixth century, Buddhism was introduced to Japan through Korea. Interactions with China during the Tang Dynasty increased dramatically. These events revolutionized Japanese culture and marked the beginning of a long ...

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History of Japan - Paleolithic. Main article: Japanese Paleolithic The Japanese Paleolithic covers a period from around 500,000 BCE, when the earliest stone tool implements have been found, to around 12,000 BCE, at the end of the last ice age, which corresponds to the beginning of the Mesolithic Jomon Period. The Japanese paleolithic is characterized by the apparition of the earliest polished stone tools in the world, around 30,000 BCE. History of Japan ...

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Main article: Meiji Restoration Renewed contact with the West precipitated profound alteration of Japanese society. After the Boshin War of 1868, the shogun was forced to resign, and the emperor was restored to power. The subsequent "Meiji Restoration" initiated many reforms. The feudal system was abolished, and numerous Western institutions were adopted, including a Western legal system and a quasi-parliamentary constitutional government outlined in the Meiji Constitution. While many aspects of the Meiji Restoration were adopt ...

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Japanese intellectuals of the late-Meiji period espoused the concept of a "line of advantage," an idea that would help to justify Japanese foreign policy at the turn of the century. According to this principle, embodied in the slogan fukoku kyōhei (富国強兵), Japan would be vulnerable to aggressive Western imperialism unless it extended a line of advantage beyond its borders which would help to repel foreign incursions and strengthen the Japanese economy. Emphasis was especially placed on Japan's "preeminent interests" in the Kor ...

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Tokugawa Ieyasu redistributed the lands and fiefs of the participants, generally rewarding those who assisted him and displacing, punishing, or exiling those who fought against him. In doing so, Tokugawa gained control of many former Toyotomi territories. Ishida Mitsunori, Konishi Yukinaga, and Ankokuji Ekei were publicly executed. The influence and reputation of the Toyotomi clan and its remaining loyalists drastically decreased, although from the Toyotomi clan's point of view, the battle was technically only an internal conflict between To ...

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