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• Taiwan
  ...constituted its own independent country, known officially as the Republic of China. ...te dangerous, and typhoons presented a serious threat during certain times of year. Many areas were rendered relatively impassable by high mountains and
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• Imagawa Ryoshun
  ...]] (modern-day Shizuoka prefecture). This promotion increased the prestige of the Imagawa family (a warrior family dating from the [[Muromachi Period]], ...ensuring the eventual failure of the rebellion and the consequent success of the Shogunate.
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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]].
  6 KB (965 words) - 02:55, 13 January 2020
• Tsushima han
  ...pan." ''[[Monumenta Nipponica]]'' 56:2 (2001). p206. </ref> Outside of the Korea trade, and a small local wax industry, Tsushima could claim no special loca ...grain produced on the island, while rice grown on Sô lands on the mainland of Kyushu fed another 7,000; the remaining 7,000 or so people relied upon rice
  25 KB (3,949 words) - 19:04, 21 July 2022
• Wako
  ...Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan'', University of Michigan Press (2005).</ref> ...- were a chief ''cause'' of, rather than a response to, the proliferation of smugglers, who then became brigands or pirates.
  30 KB (4,952 words) - 09:46, 1 February 2020
• Okinawa prefecture
  ...etween [[1609]], when [[Satsuma han]] annexed nearly all the islands north of Okinawa Island, and [[1879]], when the kingdom was [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolishe ...e State of Hawaii.<ref>[[Richard Pearson]], ''Ancient Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2013), 8.; ''Hawaii'', Lonely Planet (2009), 52.</ref> The pr
  41 KB (6,265 words) - 06:03, 29 July 2022
• Dutch East India Company
  ...York, exhibition in honor of the 400th anniversary of Hudson's "discovery" of New York & the Hudson River.]] ...se interacted, for the duration of the [[Edo period]] (until the 'opening' of the country in the [[Bakumatsu period|1850s]]).
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• Ayutthaya
  ...t outside powers, Nagasaki accepted these Siamese ships under the category of "Dutch ships," given their Western-style construction. ...no. 2 (2010): 239-240.</ref> Siamese envoys traveled to Korea on a number of occasions in the 14th century, if not earlier, and may have passed through
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• Meiji period
  [[Image:Meiji-naminoue.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Statue of Emperor Meiji at [[Naminoue Shrine]] in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], ide ...culture, and society, and marked the emergence of the modern nation-state of Japan.
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• Teppo
  ...-teppo.JPG|right|thumb|500px|An Edo period matchlock gun. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.]] ...er weapons existed in Japan earlier, having been introduced from China via Korea or the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryukyus]], European firearms made a major impact up
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