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জোমন পিরিয়ড
ইয়ায়োই পিরিয়ড
আসুকা কাল
নারা পিরিয়ড
কামাকুর আমল
মুরোমাচি সময়কাল
এডো সময়ের
মেইজি পিরিয়ড
তাইশো সময়কাল
সময়কাল দেখান
হাইসেই সময়কাল
Reiwa সময়কাল
পরিশিষ্ট
চরিত্র
পাদটীকা
তথ্যসূত্র
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Yamashita First Cave Site Park![জোমন পিরিয়ড](https://i.pinimg.com/600x/73/30/2c/73302c72029631af9a087d86b91d3579.jpg)
জোমন পিরিয়ড
Japan![ইয়ায়োই পিরিয়ড](https://i.pinimg.com/600x/fb/29/e7/fb29e738a644b6d55c69f2807a7ee081.jpg)
ইয়ায়োই পিরিয়ড
Japan![কোফুন সময়কাল](https://i.pinimg.com/600x/db/1f/d7/db1fd76cbd43579c83a45a02340c7c45.jpg)
কোফুন সময়কাল
Japan![আসুকা কাল](https://i.pinimg.com/600x/bf/d4/94/bfd494f3d84de3f7c269e07ae3173dfe.jpg)
আসুকা কাল
Nara, Japan![নারা পিরিয়ড](https://i.pinimg.com/600x/51/80/9e/51809eed26855d44e3eb5f7814699e9b.jpg)
নারা পিরিয়ড
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Appendices
APPENDIX 1
Ainu - History of the Indigenous people of Japan
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APPENDIX 2
The Shinkansen Story
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APPENDIX 3
How Japan Became a Great Power in Only 40 Years
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APPENDIX 4
Geopolitics of Japan
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APPENDIX 5
Why Japan's Geography Is Absolutely Terrible
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Characters
![Minamoto no Yoshitsune](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune.jpg/400px-Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune.jpg)
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Military Commander of the Minamoto Clan
![Fujiwara no Kamatari](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Fujiwara_Kamatari_with_Fuhito_and_J%C5%8De_%28Nara_National_Museum%29.jpg/400px-Fujiwara_Kamatari_with_Fuhito_and_J%C5%8De_%28Nara_National_Museum%29.jpg)
Fujiwara no Kamatari
Founder of the Fujiwara Clan
![Takeda Shingen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Takeda_Harunobu.jpg/400px-Takeda_Harunobu.jpg)
Takeda Shingen
Daimyo
![Itagaki Taisuke](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Itagaki_Taisuke.jpg/400px-Itagaki_Taisuke.jpg)
Itagaki Taisuke
Freedom and People's Rights Movement
![Emperor Meiji](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Emperor_Meiji_in_1873.jpg/400px-Emperor_Meiji_in_1873.jpg)
Emperor Meiji
Emperor of Japan
![Kitasato Shibasaburō](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Kitasato_Shibasaburo.jpg/400px-Kitasato_Shibasaburo.jpg)
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Physician and Bacteriologist
![Emperor Nintoku](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Nintoku-tenn%C5%8D_detail.jpg/400px-Nintoku-tenn%C5%8D_detail.jpg)
Emperor Nintoku
Emperor of Japan
![Emperor Hirohito](https://i.pinimg.com/400x/b3/f1/21/b3f12100093d3497d83e70f0699ab351.jpg)
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor of Japan
![Oda Nobunaga](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Portrait_of_Oda_Nobunaga_%28Hideyoshi_Kiyomasa_Memorial_Hall%29_Cropped.jpg/400px-Portrait_of_Oda_Nobunaga_%28Hideyoshi_Kiyomasa_Memorial_Hall%29_Cropped.jpg)
Oda Nobunaga
Great Unifier of Japan
![Natsume Sōseki](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Natsume_Soseki_photo.jpg/400px-Natsume_Soseki_photo.jpg)
Natsume Sōseki
Novelist
![Prince Shōtoku](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Prince_Shotoku_at_Age_14_as_Buddhist_Pilgrim%2C_14th_century.jpg/400px-Prince_Shotoku_at_Age_14_as_Buddhist_Pilgrim%2C_14th_century.jpg)
Prince Shōtoku
Semi-Legendary Regent of Asuka Period
![Yamagata Aritomo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Yamagata_Aritomo.jpg/400px-Yamagata_Aritomo.jpg)
Yamagata Aritomo
Prime Minister of Japan
![Matsuo Bashō](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Basho_by_Hokusai-small.jpg/400px-Basho_by_Hokusai-small.jpg)
Matsuo Bashō
Poet
![Ōkubo Toshimichi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Toshimichi_%C5%8Ckubo_5.jpg/400px-Toshimichi_%C5%8Ckubo_5.jpg)
Ōkubo Toshimichi
Founder of Modern Japan
![Fukuzawa Yukichi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Fukuzawa_Yukichi_1891.jpg/400px-Fukuzawa_Yukichi_1891.jpg)
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Founded Keio University
![Taira no Kiyomori](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Taira_S%C5%8Dkoku_Kiyomori.jpg/400px-Taira_S%C5%8Dkoku_Kiyomori.jpg)
Taira no Kiyomori
Military Leader
Tokugawa Ieyasu
First Shōgun of the Tokugawa Shogunate
![Ōkuma Shigenobu](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Shigenobu_Okuma_5.jpg/400px-Shigenobu_Okuma_5.jpg)
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Prime Minister of the Empire of Japan
![Uesugi Kenshin](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Uesugi_Kenshin_Portrait_Close-up_Rinsenji_Temple.png)
Uesugi Kenshin
Daimyō
![Saigō Takamori](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Saigo_Takamori_Portrait_by_Ishikawa_Shizumasa.jpg/400px-Saigo_Takamori_Portrait_by_Ishikawa_Shizumasa.jpg)
Saigō Takamori
Samurai during Meiji Restoration
![Itō Hirobumi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/IT%C5%8C_Hirobumi.jpg/400px-IT%C5%8C_Hirobumi.jpg)
Itō Hirobumi
First Prime Minister of Japan
![Emperor Taishō](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Emperor_Taish%C5%8D_%28cropped%29.jpg/400px-Emperor_Taish%C5%8D_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Emperor Taishō
Emperor of Japan
![Murasaki Shikibu](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Portrait_of_Murasaki_Shikibu.jpg/400px-Portrait_of_Murasaki_Shikibu.jpg)
Murasaki Shikibu
Novelist
![Himiko](https://i.pinimg.com/400x/41/99/b5/4199b54438f86c5f5d82eb5e2d5198f6.jpg)
Himiko
Shamaness-Queen of Yamatai-koku
![Minamoto no Yoritomo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Minamoto_no_Yoritomo.jpg/400px-Minamoto_no_Yoritomo.jpg)
Minamoto no Yoritomo
First Shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate
![Shigeru Yoshida](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Shigeru_Yoshida_suit.jpg/400px-Shigeru_Yoshida_suit.jpg)
Shigeru Yoshida
Prime Minister of Japan
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