Where it happened: Sea Side
Langauge: Malay
Sex: Female
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Category: Straight
Penyelidikan arkeologi menunjukkan bahawa Jepun telah didiami manusia sejak Zaman Paleolitik, 500,000 tahun yang lalu. Pada zaman ais, Jepun tercantum dengan benua Asia dari Sakhalin di utara dan Kyushu di selatan; memudahkan penghijrahan manusia, haiwan dan tumbuhan ke kepulauan Jepun dari kawasan yang kini adalah negara China dan Korea.
Budaya Jomon timbul sekitar 11,000 sebelum Masihi dengan berakhirnya zaman ais. Gaya hidup mereka berputik dari cara mesolitik ke neolitik. Masyarakat Jomon juga merupakan penghasil barang-barang tembikar yang terawal di dunia. Difahamkan bahawa kaum Jomon merupakan leluhur kaum Proto Jepun dan Ainu.
Permulaan era Yayoi di sekitar 300 SM ditandakan dengan kedatangan teknologi baru seperti penanaman padi dan sistem pengairan yang dibawa oleh pendatang dari Korea, China dan tempat-tempat lain di Asia.
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Era Klasik
Menurut mitos Jepun, negara tersebut diasaskan pada kurun ke 7 SM oleh Maharaja Jimmu. Pada kurun ke 5 dan 6, tulisan Cina dan agama Buddha diperkenalkan ke Jepun dari Korea dan kemudian langsung dari China. Maharaja-maharaja Jepun merupakan ketua pada nama sahaja. Kuasa sebenar terletak pada para bangsawan, pemangku raja dan shogun (gabenor tentera).
Permulaan zaman Nara pada kurun ke 8 ditandakan dengan penubuhan sebuah pemerintah yang kuat yang berpusat di bandar Heijokyo (kini Nara). Pusat tersebut kemudiannya berpindah ke Heiankyo (kini Kyoto), dan di sini lahir sebuah budaya klasik Jepun yang dikenali sebagai Heian.
Zaman pertengahan era Jepun telah digubal oleh pejuang yang dikenali sebagai ‘samurai’. Pada 1185,general Minamoto no Yoritomo adalah orang pertama untuk memecahkan tradisi memerintah sehaluan dengan Maharaja di Kyoto, memegang kuasa<nowikiMedia:Contoh.mp3Kamakura, just south of present-day Yokohama. While this Kamakura shogunate was somewhat stable, Japan soon fell into warring factions and suffered through what became known as the Warring States or Sengoku period.
During the 16th century, traders and missionaries from Europe reached Japan for the first time, initiating the “Nanban” (“Southern barbarian”) period of active commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West. Around the same time, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, established increasingly strong control over the warring states of Japan. Tokugawa finally reunified the country by defeating his enemies at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, moving the capital to Edo (now Tokyo) and starting the Tokugawa shogunate.
The Tokugawa shogunate, suspicious of the influence of Catholic missonaries, barred all relations with Europeans except for severely restricted contacts with Dutch Merchants at the island of Dejima. This period of isolation lasted for two and a half centuries, a time of tenuous political unity known as the Edo period, considered to be the height of Japan’s medieval culture.
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Zaman moden
Pada kemuncaknya di tahun 1942, Empayar Jepun merangkumi sebahagian besar Asia Timur dan Asia Tenggara.
Besarkan
Pada kemuncaknya di tahun 1942, Empayar Jepun merangkumi sebahagian besar Asia Timur dan Asia Tenggara.
In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa. The perceived weakness of the shogunate led many samurai to revolt, leading to the Boshin War of 1867-68. The shogunate was forced to resign, and the Meiji Restoration returned the Emperor to power. Japan adopted numerous Western institutions in the Meiji period, including a modern government, legal system, and military. These reforms transformed the Empire of Japan into a world power which defeated China in the Sino-Japanese War and Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. By 1910, Japan controlled Taiwan, half of Sakhalin, and Korea.
The early 20th century saw a brief period of “Taisho democracy” overshadowed by the rise of Japanese expansionism, leading to the invasion of Manchuria and the second Sino-Japanese War (1937). In 1941, Japan attacked the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, bringing the two countries into World War II. After a long campaign in the Pacific Ocean, Japan lost its initial territorial gains, and the United States moved into range to begin strategic bombing of Tokyo, Osaka, and other cities. Japan surrendered following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and lost all of its colonies in Asia and the Pacific.
Japan remained under US occupation until 1952. During that time, it adopted a new constitution that established the country as a pacifist constitutional monarchy. After the occupation, under a program of aggressive industrial development, protectionism, and deferral of strategic defense to the United States, Japan’s gross national product rose to become the second-highest in the world. Despite a major stock market crash in 1989, from which the country never fully recovered, Japan remains a global economic power and has recently begun to re-emerge as a strategic power, lending non-combat support to the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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