Empire of Japan
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大日本帝國 (Japanese) Dai Nippon Teikoku or Dai Nihon Teikoku | |
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The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire, or Japan is a Legacy Nation situated predominantly in the Great Orinoco. It is a superpower noted as the historic leader of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and has been granted observer status in the Axis Powers.
History
Pre-First Scinfaxi War
The first known habitation of the Japanese archipelago on Earth dates to the Upper Paleolithic, with the beginning Japanese Paleolithic dating to c. 36,000 BC. Between the fourth and sixth centuries, its kingdoms were united under an emperor in Nara, and later Heian-kyō. From the 12th century, actual power was held by military dictators (shōgun) and feudal lords (daimyō), and enforced by warrior nobility (samurai). After rule by the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates and a century of warring states, Japan was unified in 1600 by the Tokugawa Shogunate, which implemented an isolationist foreign policy. In 1853, a United States fleet forced Japan to open trade to the West, which led to the end of the shogunate and the restoration of imperial power in 1868. In the Meiji period, the Empire of Japan pursued rapid industrialization and modernization, as well as militarism and overseas colonization - emerging as a great power following the First Sino-Japanese War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Great War.