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. Releases alongside the Japanese app language on 2026-06-15 — a two-feature launch day.
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.
Launching 2026-06-15
Japanese History launches as a new Premium category on 2026-06-15, paired with the Japanese app language going live in Settings. This is the first of two two-feature launches this year (French History + French app language follows on 2026-07-01).
How to play this category
Launching 2026-06-15. Japanese History releases as a new Premium category, paired with the new app language going live in Settings. Available to Explorer and Historian subscribers ad-free; free players can unlock for 1 hour with a rewarded ad.
Related categories
- World Wars
- Ancient Civilizations
- European History
- US History