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• Jakarta
  [[File:Jakarta-history-museum.jpg|right|thumb|400px|An old city hall of Batavia, today home to the Jakarta History Museum]] [[File:Kota-tua.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main square of old Batavia, now known as Kota Tua ("Old Town").]]
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• David Kalakaua
  [[File:Kalakaua.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Statue of King Kalākaua in Waikiki]] ...9]]-[[1611]].</ref> Kalākaua's meeting with the [[Meiji Emperor]] in March of that year set the stage for [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii]].
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• British East India Company
  *''Operated in Japan: [[1613]]-[[1623]]'' ...riod]], the British presence in early modern Japan was limited to a period of only ten years, from [[1613]] to [[1623]].
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• Mongol invasions
  ...|thumb|320px|Extant section of walls constructed at [[Hakata Bay]] as part of defenses against the Mongols.]] ...tion of samurai forces from much of the archipelago, representing a degree of early national identity, unity, and organization. These continue today to b
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• Micronesia
  ...; in 1920, Japan was then granted the islands as a "mandate" by the League of Nations in 1920. ...arianas, Carolines, and Marshall Islands, with the exception of the island of Guam, which was controlled by the United States since [[1898]].
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• Ming loyalists
  ...nland China by around [[1660]], but [[Taiwan]] remained a significant base of loyalist resistance until [[1683]]. ...t 5th International Conference on Okinawan Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, September 2006.</ref>
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• 1860
  ==Timeline of 1860== *1860/6/7 The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] concludes a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with [[Portugal]].
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• Matsumae han
  *''[[Kokudaka]]: N/A''<ref>In [[1855]], the shogunate granted Matsumae a rank of 30,000 ''koku''. Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 148 ...994), pp69-93. Though this is oft-cited, following the opening of the port of [[Hakodate]] to foreign ships in [[1854]]-[[1855]], the shogunate explicitl
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• Highways
  ...hihiko, Alan Christy (trans.), ''Rethinking Japanese History'', University of Michigan (2012), 49.</ref> ...tle over time, often by improvements to get around natural barriars. Most of the highways below are still in use and are commonly called by their old na
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• Urasoe castle
  [[File:Urasoe-gusuku.JPG|right|thumb|400px|A section of the walls of the castle]] ...he island into the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]], and the moving of the capital to [[Shuri castle|Shuri]].
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• Satto
  *''Titles: King of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]] (c. 1355-1395)'' ...which would continue for roughly five hundred years, almost until the fall of the [[Qing Dynasty]].
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• Jomon Period
  ...umb|200px|A Middle Jômon ceramic vessel, c. 3000-2500 BCE. [[Freer Gallery of Art]].]] ...d in the Japanese islands may have seen the earliest invention (discovery) of [[pottery]] (ceramics) technology in the world.
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• Anji
  ''Anji'', also known as ''aji'', were a class of landed local lords in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. They were th ...om Japan or elsewhere).<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019).</ref>
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• Taira clan
  ...m. The Taira were defeated by the Minamoto, however, in the [[Genpei War]] of [[1180]]-[[1185]], and all but destroyed. The Taira would never achieve pro ...Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1350," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 74:2 (2014), 269.</ref>
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• Korean tribute missions to China
  ...f Korea and into China, at a time when considerable amounts of silver from Japan, Bolivia, and around the world were likewise being drained into Chinese cof ...nter solstice, and being named as being sent in celebration of one or more of the three occasions previously standard.
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• Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea
  [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] commanded two unsuccessful invasions of Korea, one in [[1592]]-[[1593]], and one in [[1597]]-[[1598]]. ...the role they played in bringing Korean ceramic technologies and styles to Japan.<ref name=shoko>Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagosh
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• Kumamoto castle
  [[Image:Kumamoto1.jpg|right|frame|Photograph of Kumamoto castle.]] ...[[Sassa Narimasa]] in [[1587]]. Before that, it had been the headquarters of families such as the [[Izuta clan|Izuta]], [[Kanokogi clan|Kanokogi]], and
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• 1609
  ==Timeline of 1609== ...confiscates a number of large ships from [[daimyo]] in the western regions of the archipelago.
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• Bathing
  [[File:Kodakara-yu.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Interior of Kodakara-yu, a bathhouse at the [[Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum]] ...geothermally or artificially heated water remain strongly associated with Japan today.
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• William Adams
  [[File:Anjincho.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Stone marker at the former site of Adams' [[Edo]] mansion]] ...igator who settled in Japan. He is now famous as the prototype of the hero of James Clavell's quasi-historical novel [[James Clavell's Shogun|''Shogun'']
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