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  1. Complete the sentence about Heian period with the correct year: The entry of the warrior class into court influence was a result of the ______ Hōgen Rebellion.
  2. Complete the sentence about Heian period with the correct year: The Kamakura period began in ______ when the family of Minamoto no Yoritomo seized power from the emperors and established the shogunate…
  3. Complete the sentence about Kamakura period with the correct year: During the early Kamakura period, the shogunate continued warfare against the Northern Fujiwara which was only defeated in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Kamakura period with the correct year: In the 1330s, the Southern court under Emperor Go-Daigo revolted and eventually led to the Siege of Kamakura in ______ which ended th…
  5. Complete the sentence about Kamakura period with the correct year: The period saw the adoption of Japan's first military code of law in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Muromachi period with the correct year: The period ended in ______ when the 15th and last shogun of this line, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, was driven out of the capital in Kyoto by…
  7. Complete the sentence about Muromachi period with the correct year: The Sengoku period or Warring States period, which begins in ______, largely overlaps with the Muromachi period.
  8. Complete the sentence about Muromachi period with the correct year: In ______ Takauji was proclaimed shōgun and established his government in Kyoto.
  9. Complete the sentence about Muromachi period with the correct year: In ______ he restarted the tribute system, describing himself in a letter to the Chinese Emperor as "Your subject, the King of Japan…
  10. Complete the sentence about Sengoku period with the correct year: In ______, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, the fourth Ashikaga shogun, was ill and the question of his succession arose.
  11. Complete the sentence about Sengoku period with the correct year: In ______, the war ended when the western lords, including Hatakeyama Yoshinari and Ōuchi Masahiro, withdrew their armies from Kyoto.
  12. Complete the sentence about Azuchi–Momoyama period with the correct year: After the outbreak of the Ōnin War in ______, the power of the Ashikaga Shogunate effectively collapsed, marking the start of…
  13. Complete the sentence about Azuchi–Momoyama period with the correct year: In ______, Oda Nobunaga entered Kyoto to install Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th and ultimately final Ashikaga shōgun.
  14. Complete the sentence about Azuchi–Momoyama period with the correct year: Nobunaga overthrew Yoshiaki and dissolved the Ashikaga Shogunate in ______, launching a war of conquest to politically unify J…
  15. Complete the sentence about Azuchi–Momoyama period with the correct year: Nobunaga was forced to commit suicide in the Honnō-ji Incident in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Azuchi–Momoyama period with the correct year: In ______, the Tokugawa clan who was adjacent to the east of Nobunaga's territory became independent of the Imagawa clan, and…
  17. Complete the sentence about Azuchi–Momoyama period with the correct year: In ______, an alliance of the Matsunaga and Miyoshi clans attempted a coup by assassinating Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the 13th Ashik…
  18. Complete the sentence about Edo period with the correct year: By ______, all foreigners were expelled under the policy of sakoku, with the exception of Dutch traders on the island of Dejima in Nagasak…
  19. Complete the sentence about Edo period with the correct year: In ______, Japan was forcibly opened to Western trade by United States Commodore Matthew C.
  20. Complete the sentence about Edo period with the correct year: The Edo period came to an end in ______ with the Meiji Restoration and the Boshin War, which restored imperial rule to Japan.
  21. Complete the sentence about Meiji Restoration with the correct year: On 3 January ______, Emperor Meiji declared political power to be restored to the Imperial House.
  22. Complete the sentence about Meiji Restoration with the correct year: The Meiji Constitution of ______ would remain in place until the Allied occupation of Japan after the end of World War II.
  23. Complete the sentence about Meiji period with the correct year: On February 3, ______, the 14-year-old Prince Mutsuhito succeeded his father, Emperor Kōmei, to the Chrysanthemum Throne as the 122nd em…
  24. Complete the sentence about Meiji period with the correct year: Imperial restoration occurred the next year on January 3, ______, with the formation of the new government.
  25. Complete the sentence about Meiji period with the correct year: The fall of Edo in the summer of ______ marked the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, and a new era, Meiji, was proclaimed.
  26. Complete the sentence about Meiji period with the correct year: To implement the Charter Oath, a rather short-lived constitution with eleven articles was drawn up in June ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Taishō period with the correct year: On July 30, ______, Emperor Meiji died and Crown Prince Yoshihito succeeded to the throne as Emperor of Japan.
  28. Complete the sentence about Taishō period with the correct year: On February 12, ______, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe succeeded Katsura as prime minister.
  29. Complete the sentence about Shōwa period with the correct year: In ______, with the Treaty of San Francisco, Japan became a sovereign state again.
  30. Complete the sentence about Shōwa period with the correct year: On 7 January ______, Crown Prince Akihito succeeded to the Chrysanthemum Throne upon the death of his father, Emperor Shōwa, which marke…
  31. Complete the sentence about Heisei with the correct year: The Heisei era started on 8 January ______, the day after the death of the Emperor Hirohito, when his elder son, Akihito, acceded to the thron…
  32. Complete the sentence about Heisei with the correct year: In accordance with Japanese customs, Hirohito was posthumously renamed "Emperor Shōwa" on 31 January ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Heisei with the correct year: The Heisei era went into effect at midnight local time on 8 January ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Heisei with the correct year: After meeting with members of the Imperial House Council, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced that 30 April ______ would be the date set for A…
  35. Complete the sentence about Emperor of Japan with the correct year: Since the establishment of the first shogunate in ______, the emperors of Japan have rarely taken on a role as supreme battlefield c…
  36. Complete the sentence about Emperor Meiji with the correct year: The Meiji Restoration proclaimed the Empire of Japan in ______, beginning the Meiji era.
  37. Complete the sentence about Emperor Meiji with the correct year: Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had officially retired from his position by ______, was the first Tokugawa shōgun.
  38. Complete the sentence about Emperor Meiji with the correct year: Upon retirement, Tokugawa Ieyasu and his son Tokugawa Hidetada, the titular shōgun, issued a code of behavior for the nobility in _____…
  39. Complete the sentence about Emperor Hirohito with the correct year: In ______, he made an official visit to six European countries, marking the first time a Japanese crown prince had traveled abroad.
  40. Complete the sentence about Emperor Hirohito with the correct year: In ______, he married Princess Nagako Kuni, with whom he later had seven children: Shigeko, Sachiko, Kazuko, Atsuko, Akihito, Masahi…
  41. Complete the sentence about Emperor Hirohito with the correct year: In ______, he raised no objection when Japan's Kwantung Army staged the Mukden incident as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria.
  42. Complete the sentence about Emperor Hirohito with the correct year: Following the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War in ______, tensions steadily grew between Japan and the United States.
  43. Complete the sentence about Emperor Hirohito with the correct year: In ______, Hirohito was pressured by the Allies to renounce his divinity.
  44. Complete the sentence about Emperor Akihito with the correct year: In ______, his Coming-of-Age ceremony and investiture as crown prince were held, and he began to undertake official duties in his cap…
  45. Complete the sentence about Emperor Akihito with the correct year: In April ______, he married Michiko Shōda, a commoner; it was the first imperial wedding to be televised in Japan, drawing about 15 m…
  46. Complete the sentence about Emperor Naruhito with the correct year: Naruhito was born on 23 February ______ at 4:15 p.m. in the Imperial Household Agency Hospital in Tokyo Imperial Palace.
  47. Complete the sentence about Fujiwara no Michinaga with the correct year: When Teishi died of childbirth in ______, Michinaga's influence over Ichijō was absolute.
  48. Complete the sentence about Minamoto no Yoritomo with the correct year: After five years of civil war, the Minamoto clan finally defeated the Taira in the Battle of Dan-no-ura in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Minamoto no Yoritomo with the correct year: In ______, Prince Mochihito, a son of Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa, made a national call to arms of the Minamoto clan all ove…
  50. Complete the sentence about Taira no Kiyomori with the correct year: Kiyomori was born in Heian-kyō in ______ as the first son of Taira no Tadamori.
  51. Complete the sentence about Taira no Kiyomori with the correct year: Before that though, in ______, he and Minamoto no Yoshitomo, head of the Minamoto clan, suppressed the rebels in the Hōgen Rebellio…
  52. Complete the sentence about Taira no Kiyomori with the correct year: In ______, Kiyomori arranged a marriage between his daughter Tokuko and Emperor Takakura.
  53. Complete the sentence about Oda Nobunaga with the correct year: Nobunaga emerged as the most powerful daimyō, overthrowing the nominally ruling shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki and dissolving the Ashikaga Sho…
  54. Complete the sentence about Oda Nobunaga with the correct year: Nobunaga committed seppuku during the Honnō-ji Incident in ______, when his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide ambushed and trapped him in a temp…
  55. Complete the sentence about Toyotomi Hideyoshi with the correct year: After Nobunaga was killed in the Honnō-ji incident in ______, Hideyoshi defeated the lord's assassin, Akechi Mitsuhide, at the Bat…
  56. Complete the sentence about Toyotomi Hideyoshi with the correct year: With the unification of Japan complete, Hideyoshi launched the Japanese invasions of Korea in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Toyotomi Hideyoshi with the correct year: In ______, Hideyoshi became an ashigaru for the powerful Oda clan, the rulers of his home province of Owari, now headed by the amb…
  58. Complete the sentence about Tokugawa Ieyasu with the correct year: After Hideyoshi's death and the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu seized power in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Tokugawa shogunate with the correct year: After the Battle of Sekigahara in ______, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  60. Complete the sentence about Bushido with the correct year: Another early use of the written term is in the Kōyō Gunkan in ______ by Kōsaka Masanobu.
  61. Complete the sentence about Bushido with the correct year: The Kashoki shows that moral values were present in bushido by ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Bushido with the correct year: In ______, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the prosecution of 26 Martyrs of Japan.
  63. Complete the sentence about Daimyō with the correct year: The daimyo era ended soon after the Meiji Restoration, with the adoption of the prefecture system in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Daimyō with the correct year: The Battle of Sekigahara in ______ marked the beginning of the Edo period.
  65. Complete the sentence about Ronin with the correct year: As rōnin found fewer options, they joined in the Keian Uprising of ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Battle of Sekigahara with the correct year: At dawn on October 21, ______, the Tokugawa advance guard stumbled into Ishida's army; neither side saw each other because of de…
  67. Complete the sentence about Battle of Okehazama with the correct year: In opposition, Oda Nobunaga could field only about ______-3000 men, or roughly one-tenth of the Imagawa army.
  68. Complete the sentence about Battle of Okehazama with the correct year: In ______, Japan's Ministry of Education designated the battlefield, Okehazama Kosenjō, a National Historic Site of Japan.
  69. Complete the sentence about Battle of Dan-no-ura with the correct year: The battle is featured in Masaki Kobayashi's ______ film Kwaidan, in the film's third act, titled "Hoichi the Earless".
  70. Complete the sentence about Mongol invasions of Japan with the correct year: In ______, a well-traveled Goryeo citizen told Kublai that the Mongols should bring Japan to vassalage.
  71. Complete the sentence about Siege of Osaka with the correct year: When Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in ______, Japan came to be governed by the Council of Five Elders, among whom Tokugawa Ieyasu possessed…
  72. Complete the sentence about Siege of Osaka with the correct year: After defeating Ishida Mitsunari in the Battle of Sekigahara in ______, Ieyasu essentially seized control of Japan for himself and abo…
  73. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the Tokugawa shogunate was established with its capital at Edo.
  74. Complete the sentence about Siege of Osaka with the correct year: In addition, as a mechanism of control, it was agreed that in the year ______ he would marry the daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada, Senhim…
  75. Complete the sentence about Siege of Osaka with the correct year: In ______, Hideyori finally left Osaka, meeting with Ieyasu for two hours at Nijō Castle.
  76. Complete the sentence about Satsuma Rebellion with the correct year: The rebellion lasted from 29 January until 24 September ______, when it was decisively crushed, and its leader, Saigō Takamori, was…
  77. Complete the sentence about Satsuma Rebellion with the correct year: Saigō was a strong proponent of war with Korea in the Seikanron debate of ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Satsuma Rebellion with the correct year: To help support and employ these men, in ______ Saigō established a private academy known as the Shi-gakkō in Kagoshima.
  79. Complete the sentence about Satsuma Rebellion with the correct year: Support for Saigō was so strong that Satsuma had effectively seceded from the central government by the end of ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Perry Expedition with the correct year: Shipwrecked Westerners were treated harshly or even executed in Japan, under the policy of Sakoku, including sailors from the Americ…
  81. Complete the sentence about Perry Expedition with the correct year: In ______, Dutch King William II sent a letter urging Japan to end the isolation policy on its own before change would be forced fro…
  82. Complete the sentence about Perry Expedition with the correct year: In May ______, American Secretary of State Daniel Webster authorized Commodore John H.
  83. Complete the sentence about Convention of Kanagawa with the correct year: In ______, King William II of the Netherlands sent a letter urging Japan to end the isolation policy on its own before change…
  84. Complete the sentence about Convention of Kanagawa with the correct year: In ______, an official American expedition led by Commodore James Biddle arrived in Japan asking for ports to be opened for tr…
  85. Complete the sentence about Convention of Kanagawa with the correct year: Perry arrived with four warships at Uraga, at the mouth of Edo Bay on July 8, ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Portsmouth with the correct year: In February ______, Roosevelt sent messages to the Russian government via the U.S. ambassador in Saint Petersburg.
  87. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Portsmouth with the correct year: On March 8, ______, Japanese Army Minister Terauchi Masatake met with the American Minister to Japan, Lloyd Griscom, to tell Roo…
  88. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Portsmouth with the correct year: On June 7, ______, Roosevelt met with Kaneko Kentarō, a Japanese diplomat, and on June 8, he received a positive reply from Russ…
  89. Complete the sentence about Russo-Japanese War with the correct year: In August, the Japanese laid siege to Port Arthur, which eventually fell in January ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Russo-Japanese War with the correct year: In March ______, Japanese troops took Mukden, the Manchurian capital, after heavy fighting.
  91. Complete the sentence about Russo-Japanese War with the correct year: After the Meiji Restoration in ______, the Meiji government endeavoured to assimilate Western ideas, technological advances and wa…
  92. Complete the sentence about Russo-Japanese War with the correct year: China's "Open Door Policy." In Autumn ______, U.S. minister to Japan Charles DeLong explained to U.S.
  93. Complete the sentence about First Sino-Japanese War with the correct year: In October ______, the Japanese Army invaded Manchuria, and captured Port Arthur on 21 November.
  94. Complete the sentence about First Sino-Japanese War with the correct year: Japan next captured Weihaiwei on the Shandong Peninsula on 12 February ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Second Sino-Japanese War with the correct year: As a Japanese invasion became imminent, Chiang eventually formed a United Front with the Communists in ______, a process tha…
  96. Complete the sentence about Second Sino-Japanese War with the correct year: The war is considered to have begun on 7 July ______ after the Marco Polo Bridge incident near Beijing, which escalated into…
  97. Complete the sentence about Second Sino-Japanese War with the correct year: Following the protracted Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese captured the capital of Nanjing in ______ and perpetrated the Nanj…
  98. Complete the sentence about Second Sino-Japanese War with the correct year: After failing to stop the Japanese capture of Wuhan in ______, China's de facto capital at the time, the Nationalist governm…
  99. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Japanese Alliance with the correct year: In ______, it enabled Japan's entry into World War I and capture of German-held territories in Asia.
  100. Complete the sentence about Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 with the correct year: In ______, the Treaty of Basic Relations between South Korea and Japan confirmed this treaty is "already null and void".

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