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This city served as Japan's capital for over a thousand years before Tokyo, and is famous for its ancient temples and traditional culture.
- Osaka
- Kyoto
- Hiroshima
- Nagasaki
These elite warriors served Japanese lords for centuries and followed a strict code of honor called bushido.
- Ninjas
- Shoguns
- Samurai
- Ronin
This was the title of the military dictators who ruled Japan from the 12th century until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
- Shogun
- Emperor
- Daimyo
- Sensei
This U.S. naval officer arrived in Japan in 1853 with Black Ships and forced the country to open trade with the West.
- Admiral Nelson
- Captain Cook
- John Paul Jones
- Commodore Perry
This period of Japanese isolation from 1603 to 1868 was enforced by the Tokugawa shogunate to prevent foreign influence.
- Meiji Period
- Edo Period
- Heian Period
- Nara Period
In 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities, leading to Japan's surrender in World War II.
- Tokyo and Osaka
- Kyoto and Kobe
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Yokohama and Sapporo
This 1868 event restored imperial rule to Japan and began the country's rapid modernization and industrialization.
- Meiji Restoration
- Taika Reform
- Kenmu Restoration
- Boshin War
This religion native to Japan focuses on the worship of kami, or spirits, found in nature and ancestors.
- Buddhism
- Confucianism
- Taoism
- Shinto
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