Japanese history trivia

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• Which railway, opened between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, was the world's first high-speed line?Japanese history
• Who is counted, along with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, as one of the three great heroes of Japan's Warring States period?Japanese history
• Which battle of 1600, fought between an eastern and a western army, is known as the battle that decided the realm?Japanese history
• Which city, the stage on which Japan showed the world its postwar recovery, hosted the first Summer Olympics held in Asia, in 1964?Japanese history
• Which long novel did Murasaki Shikibu write in the Heian period?Japanese history
• Which man from Tosa brokered the alliance between two bitter rivals, known as the Satcho Alliance, in the last years of the shogunate?Japanese history
• Which peace treaty ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905?Japanese history
• Which Enlightenment thinker wrote An Encouragement of Learning and spread Western thought widely in Meiji Japan?Japanese history
• Prince Shotoku, who drew up the Seventeen-Article Constitution, was a figure of the Edo period.Japanese history
• Who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces that occupied Japan after World War II?Japanese history
• On August 6, 1945, which Japanese city became the first in the world to be attacked with an atomic bomb?Japanese history
• After its defeat in World War II, Japan was divided into east and west as Germany was.Japanese history
• During the Pacific War, Japanese forces occupied many parts of Southeast Asia.Japanese history
• Japan was defeated by Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, which began in 1904.Japanese history
• Oda Nobunaga met his end at Honno-ji in a revolt by his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide.Japanese history
• Japan ruled Taiwan and Korea as colonies in the first half of the 20th century.Japanese history
• The first prime minister of Japan was Ito Hirobumi.Japanese history
• The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 did its worst damage around Osaka and Kyoto.Japanese history
• The Japanese era names ran from Meiji to Showa and then to Taisho.Japanese history
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended the divisions of the Warring States period and unified Japan at the end of the 16th century.Japanese history
• Under the seclusion policy of the Edo shogunate, Japan cut off trade with other countries.Japanese history
• Who opened the Kamakura shogunate?Japanese history
• Edo is the old name of which present-day city?Japanese history
• Perry, who brought warships to Japan in 1853 and demanded that its ports be opened, came from which country?Japanese history
• Which city became the seat of the Heian period when the capital moved there in 794?Japanese history
• Which war broke out between Japan and Qing China in 1894?Japanese history
• What was the title of the supreme ruler who headed the warrior governments of Japan?Japanese history
• Who founded the Edo shogunate?Japanese history
• Which city was the capital of Japan for a very long time?Japanese history
• What class of people were the samurai of Japan?Japanese history
• Which reform drove the modernization of Japan from 1868 on?Japanese history
• The Meiji Restoration began in 1868.Japanese history
• Tokugawa Ieyasu founded the Edo shogunate.Japanese history
• The capital of the Heian period was present-day Tokyo.Japanese history
• The Mongol expeditions against Japan took place in the 13th century.Japanese history
• Edo is the old name of present-day Tokyo.Japanese history
• The four main islands of Japan are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Okinawa.Japanese history
• The present capital of Japan is Kyoto.Japanese history
• Samurai is the word for the merchant class of Japan.Japanese history
• The Kamakura shogunate was the warrior government founded by Minamoto no Yoritomo.Japanese history