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🎎History of Japan
Key Terms

276 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your History of Japan exam

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ōnin war
1995 Kobe earthquake
2011 tōhoku earthquake

A

Abenomics
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Air raid preparedness
Amaterasu
Ancestor worship
Anti-Comintern Pact
Article 9
Asakura Clan
Ashikaga Takauji
Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Automotive industry
Azai Clan
Azuma Kagami

B

Baekje
Ban the bomb
Bank of Japan
Battle of Dan-no-Ura
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okehazama
Battle of Sekigahara
Bijin-ga
Black Ships
Boshin War
Bronze tools
Buddhism's Influence
Buddhist Clergy
Buddhist Iconography
Buddhist sects
Buddhist Sutras
Bullet train
Burden-sharing negotiations
Bushido Code

C

Chiefdoms
Chinese Nationalism
Collective Self-Defense
Comfort women issue
Compulsory Education System
Confucian ethics
Confucian Ideology
Constitutional revision debate
Control Faction
Cord-marked pottery
Court culture
Cultural nationalism

E

Economic centralization
Economic Growth Period
Economic nationalism
Edicts Against Christianity
Educated middle class
Eiji Toyoda
Eisai
Electronics industry
Emperor Jimmu
Emperor Meiji
Emperor Shomu
Emperor Worship
Empress Suiko
Esoteric Buddhism

F

February 26 Incident
Firebombing tactics
First Sino-Japanese War
Five Relationships
Flower arrangement
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
Fumi-e practice

G

GARIOA Program
Gender equality in employment opportunity law
General Hideki Tojo
Genpei War
Good Wife, Wise Mother
Goseibai shikimoku