Japanese History
Sixteen thousand years of Japanese history — from the Jōmon pottery cultures to the 2025 Osaka Expo. 114 events covering the Heian court, the samurai era, the Meiji Restoration, the world wars, the postwar economic miracle, and the modern Reiwa era. Japanese History is live for everyone now — open Game Setup, pick Japanese History, and start sorting. The whole app is also fully playable in Japanese.
What's in this category
Japanese History spans the prehistoric Jōmon culture, the Yayoi rice agriculture, the Kofun period, the Asuka and Nara courts, the Heian aristocratic era, the samurai-led Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates, the Sengoku warring-states period, the Edo Tokugawa shogunate, the Meiji Restoration and rapid modernisation, Japan's role in the world wars, the postwar economic miracle, the Heisei recession, and the Reiwa-era present.
What it's not: broader East Asian events (Chinese, Korean, Mongolian) appear in their own future categories. Japanese-influenced events outside Japan (e.g., Pearl Harbor, the Pacific theatre of WWII) also live in US History and World Wars.
Sample events
- Jōmon Pottery Culture Emerges — 14000 BCE
- Yayoi Rice Agriculture Arrives — 300 BCE
- Queen Himiko Rules Yamatai — 239 CE
- Kofun Burial Mound Era Begins — 300 CE
- Kamakura Shogunate Founded (representative) — 1192
- Meiji Restoration (representative) — 1868
- Postwar Japanese Constitution Takes Effect — 1947
- Osaka Hosts World Expo on Yumeshima — 2025
+ 106 more events. New events added through corrections and ongoing verification.
Now available
Japanese History is live for everyone — and the whole app is fully playable in Japanese, which you can switch on in Settings. Japanese History arrived as a new Premium category on 2026-06-15, paired with the Japanese app language going live. French History and the French app language follow later this year.
How to play this category
Live now. Japanese History is a Premium category. Explorer and Historian subscribers play it ad-free; free players can unlock it for 1 hour with a single rewarded ad. Open Game Setup, pick Japanese History, and start sorting.
Related categories
- World Wars
- Ancient Civilizations
- European History
- US History