When did the history of Japan begin?

1. The Yayoi Era

Circa 300 B.C.E. - 300 A.D. The era when Yayoi style pottery was used in ancient Japan. Its culture is called Yayoi culture.

2. Yamato Era

The era following the Yayoi Era in Japan, which began in 300 CE and ended in 600 CE, was named after the large number of ancient burial mounds built by the rulers at that time.

3. Asuka Era

Beginning around 600 AD and ending in 710 when the capital was moved to Heijo-kyo, the Asuka Era was followed by the Nara Era.

4. The Nara Period

In 710 A.D., the capital of Japan was moved to Heijo-kyo (present-day Nara City and its outskirts), ushering in a period of prosperity for the Ritual State.

5. Heian Period

Toward the end of the 8th century, Japan moved its capital to Heian-kyo (now Kyoto City) in an attempt to re-establish the Rikkyo system.

6. The Shogunate Era

The end of the 12th century saw the beginning of the six-hundred-year Shogunate Era in Japan, with the Kamakura Shogunate and Muromachi Shogunate coming to power.

7. The Meiji Era

In 1867, Emperor Meiji reorganized the internal affairs, enriched the country and strengthened the army, and briefly experienced the Taisho democratic period after World War I. The Meiji Era was the first time that Japan experienced the Taisho democratic period, and the first time that Japan experienced the Taisho democratic period.

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Origins of Japan:

An analysis by the National Institute of Genetics in Japan concluded that the Ainu people of Hokkaido and the Okinawan people have **** similarities in their hereditary traits. Although there is more mixing of Jomon and Yayoi from the mainland in places such as Honshu and Kyushu, the two regions of the north and south, which are farther apart, seem to have retained more genetic traits of the Jomon lineage. It is claimed to be genetically confirmed that the origin of Japanese people is a mixture of Jomon and Yayoi.

The Institute of Genetics and the University of Tokyo, among others, have noted in their research that SNP features that mutate individual bases in DNA vary by ethnicity and region. About 900,000 SNPs have been compared in 243 people in Honshu and other parts of Japan, 36 from the Ainu nation, 35 from Okinawa, and about 900,000 from China (Han Chinese in Beijing.) Of these, the DNA of the Ainu nation was preserved 30 years ago.

Japan's first unified regime, the Republic of Yamato, emerged in the 4th century A.D. Subsequently, the Emperor's system was established after the Taika Reform, and an attempt was made to create a Ritsu system by introducing the culture of the Tang Dynasty and modeling the political system after that of the Tang Dynasty in China.

In 710, Emperor Genmei moved the capital to Heijo-kyo, and Japan entered the Nara period, with the Ruling System becoming more and more mature. The Yamato regime also gradually expanded its territory, conquering parts of the Tohoku region and southern Kyushu.

People's Daily Online - New Japanese Study: Japanese Origins as a Mix of Jomon and Yayoi People

Baidu Encyclopedia - Japanese History