Japan's sentiment regarding indigenous peoples was crafted around the memory of the Mudan Incident, when, in 1871, a group of shipwrecked Okinawan fishermen was massacred by a Paiwan group from the village of Mudan in southern Taiwan.

Shinto, meaning " the way of the gods ", is Japan's indigenous religion and is practiced by about 83 % of the population.

The attention to detail, an integral part of Japan's tradition, forms a uniquely indigenous aesthetic.

Kokugaku, beginning as a scholarly investigation into the philology of Japan's early classical literature, had suffered neglect at that time due to the powerful influence of Confucian orthodoxy, and sought to recover and evaluate these texts, some of which were obscure and difficult to read, in order to appraise them positively and harvest them to determine and ascertain what were the original indigenous values of Japan before the introduction of Chinese civilization.

( Yanaihara later continued Nitobe's chair in colonial studies at Tokyo University ; but Yanaihara's pacifist views and emphasis on indigenous self-determination, which he partly inherited from Nitobe, came into a full conflict with Japan's wartime government during the World War II, resulted in barring him from teaching until after the war ).

Although Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu, had invented their own kendama-type game, it is considered most likely that the modern Japanese toy was derived from a European import.

With the introduction of a new religion to the court, a deep rift developed between the Mononobe clan, who supported the worship of Japan's traditional deities, and the Soga clan, who supported the adoption of Buddhism.

Shinto, a polytheistic religion with no book of religious canon, is Japan's native religion.

Like other holidays, this holiday was repackaged as a non-religious holiday for the sake of separation of religion and state in Japan's postwar constitution.

Like other Japanese holidays, this holiday was repackaged as a non-religious holiday for the sake of separation of religion and state in Japan's postwar constitution.

* Various forms of animism, such as Japan's Shinto and African traditional religion, focus on invisible beings that represent or connect with plants, animals ( sometimes called " Animal Fathers )", or landforms ( kami ): translators usually employ the English word " spirit " when trying to express the idea of such entities.

Japan's three large Shinkōshūkyō ), which were directly influenced by Shintō ( the state religion ) and shamanism.

, also called, a term which however has a negative connotation of bastardization and randomness, is the syncretism of Buddhism and kami worship which was Japan's religion until the Meiji period.

Telling the story of the creation of Japan according to Japanese mythology, specifically the Shinto religion, it is considered Japan's answer to The Ten Commandments.

Following Japan's surrender, the Allies issued the Shinto Directive separating church and state within Japan, leading to the Humanity Declaration of the incumbent Emperor.

It has always been a part of Japan's history and constitutes the main current of Shinto tradition.

Priests were officially nominated and organized by the state, and they instructed the youth in a form of Shinto theology based on the official dogma of the divinity of Japan's national origins and its Emperor.

Drawing heavily from Shinto and Japan's ancient literature, the school looked back to a perceived golden age of Japanese culture and society.

In addition state Shinto and state socialism developed from kokugaku thought and thus indirectly led to Japan's imperialist expansion throughout the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth centuries.

It is used in gagaku, the Shinto classical music associated with Japan's imperial court.

, author of " Japan's Shinto Revolution ", wrote in 1940, " When we look up into the past, the people of our country are descended from the kami.

* 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system ( Shinōkōshō ) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

* 1945 – An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

Japan's Seventeen-article constitution written in 604, reportedly by Prince Shōtoku, is an early example of a constitution in Asian political history.

He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, before even Kamen Rider ( the same year, Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009 ), and was the inspiration for RoboCop.

* 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved " 300 million yen robbery ", is carried out in Tokyo.

Hachijō-daiko is a unique style of Japanese drumming originating on Japan's Hachijo Island ( Hachijō-jima ), located in the Pacific some 287 kilometers south of Tokyo.

In the Japanese language, the word tennō is restricted to Japan's own monarch ; kōtei ( 皇帝 ) is used for foreign emperors.

It is assumed that this was Japan's first large-scale engineering works undertaking.

So Japan's currency code is JPY — JP for Japan and Y for yen.

In total, as of 2006, Japan's territory is, of which is land and water.

Japan's highest mountain is Mt.

About 73 percent of Japan's area is mountainous, and scattered plains and intermontane basins ( in which the population is concentrated ) cover only about 25 percent.

According to U. N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the approved expansion is equal to about 82 % of Japan's total land area.

As of the most recent census ( October 2010 ), Japan's population is 128, 057, 352 ; for March 2012 the estimated population is 127, 650, 000 making it the world's tenth most populated country.

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

In South Asia, Japan's role is mainly that of an aid donor.

According to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's arc of freedom theory, it is in Japan's interests to develop closer ties with India, world's most populous democracy, while its relations with China remain chilly.

The United States is Japan's closest ally, and Japan relies on the U. S. for its national security to a high degree.