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history and Japan
In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.
* Music of Japan for some history of taiko.
In Nihon Shoki, a book of Japanese history finished in the eighth century, it is said that the Empire of Japan was founded in 660 BC by Emperor Jimmu.
Although the emperor has been a symbol of continuity with the past, the degree of power exercised by the emperor of Japan has varied considerably throughout Japanese history.
In the history of Japan, Kōgyoku / Saimei was the second of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant.
In the history of Japan, Jitō was the third of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant.
In the history of Japan, Genshō was the fifth of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant.
In the history of Japan, Kōken / Shōtoku was the sixth of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant.
The Cambridge history of Japan: Ancient Japan, Vol.
His efforts left a significant impression upon the missionary history of India and, as one of the first Jesuit missionaries to the East Indies, his work is of fundamental significance to Christians in the propagation of Christianity in China and Japan.
The history of the modern Federated States of Micronesia is one of settlement by Micronesians ; colonization by Spain, Germany, and Japan ; United Nations trusteeship under United States-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ; and gradual independence beginning with the ratification of a sovereign constitution in 1979.
The culture of Japan developed with limited influence from the outside world and had one of the longest stretches of peace in history.
The economic history of Japan is one of the most studied economies for its spectacular growth in three different periods.
* Roads In Japan, from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ( MLIT )-English and Japanese website, link refers specifically to 5 PDF chapters-as well as a reference chapter-on road history, statistics, maps, construction and advanced road technologies in Japan ( graphics throughout, 41 total pages ).
Throughout history, bilateral foreign relations between Japan and India have generally been friendly and strong.
The history of the koto in Japan dates back to the 16th Century.
Azuchi Castle on the shores of Lake Biwa is said to have been the greatest castle in the history of Japan, covered with gold and statues on the outside and decorated with standing screen, sliding door, wall, and ceiling paintings made by his subject Kano Eitoku on the inside.
In Japan, the Jōmon period has a long history of development of Jōmon Pottery which was characterized by impressions of rope on the surface of the pottery created by pressing rope into the clay before firing.
The largest privatization in history involved Japan Post.
In fact, the speed of aging in Korea is unprecedented in human history, 18 years to double aging population from 7 – 14 % ( least number of years ), overtaking even Japan.
Japan has a long history of producing science fiction series for TV.
Throughout history two-handed swords have generally been less common than their one-handed counterparts, one exception being their common use in Japan.

history and Suiko
When asked to accede to the throne to fill the power vacuum that subsequently developed, Suiko became the first of what would be several examples in Japanese history where a woman was chosen to accede to the throne to avert a power struggle.

history and was
Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.
Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.
This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.
His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.
Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.
To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.
In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.
On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.
The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.
This is not to assume that his work was without merit, but the validity of his assumptions concerning the meaning of history must always be considered against this background of an unprofessional approach.
He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.
It was history that must be in error, not the historian.
J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.
In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

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