The district of Kyoto, Muromachi, became the Shogun’s base for the new government military of Takauji. In the period of Muromachi and the last years of the Shogunate of Takauji, there were a number of internal conflicts

The worst of all was the Ōnin War in the year 1467 AD. It was a crisis of succession alluding to who should be the next Shogun

Music scene during the Muromachi period (1538)

In this period the Oda Nobunaga begins the process of reunifying Japan following a hundred years of civil war; he is trailed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598). And the establishment of present-day Japan is laid. Hideyoshi's desire to vanquish China and Korea is impeded by local opposition.

The Battle of Sekigahara (関ヶ原の戦い) was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month), this battle was the biggest and one of the most important battles in Japanese feudal history, that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.

In the Edo period, Japan finally enters the age or phase of national isolation and peace. Image: The first Tokugawa shogun Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.

During the Edo period, the society of Japan was properly structured as the publication and printing of books started to maximize; the education was introduced to the urban communities; the United States showed interest in order use the ports of Japan.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai is one of the iconic images of the Edo Period.

The emperorship is restored in the Meiji period. The new national policies are introduced in order to proper Japan as a powerful and rich country so they can safeguard themselves from the invasions of the west.

Emperor Meiji moving from Kyoto to Tokyo, end of 1868, as imagined by Le Monde illustré

Emperor Hirohito's sixty-three-year reign from 1926 to 1989 is the longest in recorded Japanese history. The first twenty years were described by the rise of extreme nationalism and a series of expansionist wars. After suffering defeat in World War II, Japan was occupied by foreign powers for the first time in its history, and then re-emerged as a major world economic power.

TOKYO 1964 Olympic Games: The Games of the 18th Olympiad, the first Olympics to be held in Asia, were staged in Tokyo over 15 days from 10 to 24 October, 1964.

All the energy and money that Japan invested in the military efforts were now turned to building up the economy. Soon, Japan was one of the powerhouses of manufacturing in the world, developing and growing the industries of consumer electronics, automobiles, high-tech equipment, and ships. Japan was the first-ever Asian miracle economic power. And in the year 1989, it became the second-largest economy throughout the world, the first being the US. (If the Soviet Union is not included, Japan is the world's second-largest economy since 1967.)

In the period of Heisei, numerous construction projects were completed, which broke records. In 1995, the Tokyo subway was attacked by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo in using sarin gas. It was known as the worst act of terrorism on domestic grounds in the history of Japan.

Minamoto no Yoritomo built a base of power at Kamakura. He died in 1199 AD from an accident involving horse riding.

In 1274 AD and then 1281 AD, the empire of Mongolia launched two great invasions of Japan where both of them failed due to the typhoons.

The Yamato court during the Heian period conquered the lands of Ainu in the northern Honshu.

In 1068 AD, the hegemony of Fujiwara as well finished when the emperor Go-Sanjo executed different policies to limit the effect of the clan of Fujiwara

In 1160 AD, the country got its new de facto ruler, Taira no Kiyomori. Likewise, the courts of Heian, the clan of Taira soon got tempted by the comfort of the creatures and the maneuvers of the imperial court.

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine

The Nara period in Japan’s classical history carries two significant events one being the foundation of the first permanent capital of Japan at the Heijō-kyō that is known as Nara in the modern age. And the second is the effect on the population due to the number of different natural disasters and epidemics

The period of Asuka is well-known in the history of Japan as it began with the introduction to Buddhism. It was also described by the important artistic and socio-political changes.

A number of rulers of the clan built several mounds of burial for themselves. Due to this practice the historians of the modern age name this period as Kofun that means the ancient tomb in the Japanese language.

The name of this period comes from the recent district in Tokyo where old pottery was found. It is also popular as the Iron age of Japan. In this period the advancement of growth of agricultural development was observed massively.

An American scholar, Edward S. Morse, in 1877 named this period the Jomon Era that refers to the cord-marked. It was inspired by the decorated pottery that was found in two hundred and twenty-four sites in Honshu and Kyushu.