Japanese history trivia

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• 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
• What class of people were the samurai of Japan?Japanese history
• Which city was the capital of Japan for a very long time?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
• Under the seclusion policy of the Edo shogunate, Japan traded with no foreign country at all.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