Some developments emerged over a period of years, and precise dates for events before A.D. 600 have not been ... Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the Kojiki (Record ...

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For the first time in its 79-year history in Japan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Japan Engineer District (USACE JED) opened its doors to the ...

South Korea's decision not to participate in what was envisioned an a moment of reconciliation highlighted the perceived lack of sincerity in Japan’s treatment of historical issues. With ...

An anonymous Japanese American blogger ... These were not just dry records of statistics or detached accounts of historical events — they were deeply personal, raw snapshots of life, including ...

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S ... Samurai grievances were compounded by the events of the early decades of the nineteenth century. Bad crop harvests ...

In his version of events, he makes no mention of fighting ... Eisai, who founded an important Zen sect, is credited with having made tea popular in Japan. By the fourteenth century, warriors were ...