History of Japan

Main article: Japan

2023

Japan approved the export of its Patriot missiles to the United States

On December 22, 2023, Japan eased restrictions on arms exports and officially approved a plan to export Patriot missiles to the United States, fulfilling a request from its ally, the government said.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government agreed to allow exports of finished defense equipment manufactured under license in Japan.

Financial support for Ukraine reached 6.5 billion euros

Japan strengthens sanctions against Russia amid conflict in Ukraine

In January 2023, the Japanese government, as part of a new package of sanctions against Russia due to the situation around Ukraine, prohibits the export of radioactive materials, vaccines and medical devices, as well as robots.

The measures come into force on February 3.

The ban also includes medical devices, equipment for nuclear facilities, oil and natural gas exploration, various chemicals, including tear gas, fingerprint powder.

Japan has expanded personal sanctions against 22 individuals and 3 organizations from the Russian Federation. The list includes Irkut Corporation, KamAZ PJSC "" and JSC Moscow Avangard Machine-Building Plant. In total, 644 people and 56 companies are already included in the list of persons and organizations whose assets will be frozen if discovered.

2022: Russia refuses to negotiate with Japan on peace treaty

On March 21, 2022, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia was refusing to negotiate with Japan on a peace treaty. Russia, in retaliation for Japanese sanctions, stops visa-free travel of Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands. The Russian Federation is withdrawing from the dialogue with Japan on establishing joint economic activities in the southern Kuril Islands. Responsibility for damage to interaction with the Russian Federation and the interests of Japan itself lies with official Tokyo.

1995: Kobe earthquake

1995 Kobe earthquake, Japan

In 1995, one of the strongest earthquakes in history, the city of Kobe, occurred in Japan.

1988

Representatives of Yakuza, 1980s.

1985:520 killed in Boeing 747 crash

A major aviation accident that occurred on August 12, 1985 and became one of the largest in the world. The Boeing 747 airliner made a domestic flight on the Tokyo-Osaka route, but 12 minutes after takeoff it lost its vertical tail stabilizer. The crew kept the unmanaged aircraft in the air for 32 minutes, but it crashed into Mount Otsutaka, 112 kilometers from Tokyo. Of the 524 people on board, only 4 survived.

1971: Record wave height

In the photo, the largest wave recorded by humans was observed near the Japanese island of Ishigaki in 1971. The wave had a height of 85 meters.

1967

Masako Owada (future empress of Japan) with girlfriends in kindergarten. Moscow, Soviet Union, 1967.

Trammers of passengers in the Japanese metro, 1966-67

1964

Early morning train. Japan. 1964

1960

Japanese gangsters (yakuza). Photo Ed Van Der Elsken. Osaka. Japan. 1960

1947

Yakuza members in public sento baths, 1947. The first mention of the commercial use of sento dates back to 1266 in Nichiren goseroku. These baths were mixed, that is, female-male. Further, the mixed use of baths was repeatedly prohibited, but all the time the bans turned out to be ineffective.

1946

School lesson. Hiroshima, 1946.

1945

American sailors in line to Japanese home of solace, 1945, Japan

World War II defeat

Main article: World War II

On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender. The Act of Surrender, formally ending World War II, was signed on September 2, 1945.

On August 9, 1945, the Fat Man atomic bomb equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT was dropped on the city of Nagasaki by US pilot Charles Sweeney, commander of the B-29 Bockscar bomber. The total death toll in Nagasaki ranged from 60 to 80 thousand people.

Nuclear explosion over Nagasaki. 1945.

Molten Bottle, Nagasa

1961. At first glance, it seems that the picture shows the carcass of the animal, but in fact it is just a bottle of beer twisted by the heat of a nuclear explosion]]

Bombing of the Japanese city of Kobe, 1945.

Unsuccessful kamikaze attack, 1945. The imprint on board the British heavy cruiser HMS Sussex belongs to the Japanese Ki-51 Army attack aircraft (codenamed Sonya). The warhead hit the water before the plane collided with the hull of the vessel.

US Army wins battle over Japan's Iwo Jima island

American Marines during the battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the spring of 1945]]

Hoisting the flag over Iwo Jima. The battle for the island ended on March 26, 1945. This was the first military operation of US forces in Japan.

1942: Maximum territory under the control of the Empire of Japan

In August 1942, the territory under the control of the Japanese fleet reached its largest size

1940: Japan occupies French Indochina

Main article: World War II

At the beginning of World War II, eastern Indochina was a French colony, but the rapid fall of France created a political vacuum that allowed Japan to occupy Indochina in September 1940.

Administrative division of the French colony Indochina Union in 1940

Japan's ally in the region was Thailand, which allowed Japanese troops to be deployed on its territory. In return, pro-Japanese Thailand received Laos and part of the territory of Cambodia.

1938

Japanese soldiers bury the Chinese alive in Nanjing, 1937/38.

1937

A Japanese soldier carries a guard on a section of the Great Wall, China, in 1937.

Snipers School, Japan. 1937.

Japan, 1930s. Chorists in military training.

1936: Launch of the complex with bacteriological weapons

Main article: Detachment 731 (Bacteriological Weapons of Japan)

Unit 731 personnel infect the Chinese civilian population with bubonic plague in Harbin, Manchuria, 1940.

1935

Horse-drawn wagons in the town of Itoman in Okinawa. According to the recollections of the residents of those places, the speed of the horse was like a running person. The total duration of the tracks was 9.3 kilometers. 1935

Meter photo of Hachiko, who has been waiting for his deceased owner for more than 9 years. Japan, 1935.

1928

Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan, 1928

1914: Sakurajima volcano erupts

Until January 12, 1914, Sakurajima was an island, but after the eruption it connected with the main part of Kagoshima Prefecture and turned into a peninsula.

1905: Negotiations following the Russo-Japanese War

US President Roosevelt (center) is negotiating with Russian and Japanese diplomats) on a peaceful settlement of the Russo-Japanese War, 1905

The Japanese in captured Port Arthur inspect the Russian fortress artillery. Russo-Japanese War. 1905.

1904

This was what Japanese military baths looked like during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904

Japanese spider crab, 1904

1898

French political caricature of the late 1890s. The pie represents China, which is shared by Queen Victoria of England, William II, Emperor of Germany (arguing with Victoria about a piece of pie, while plunging a dagger into the pie as a sign of his aggressive intentions), Nicholas II, Emperor of the Russian Empire, looking after a special piece, French Marianne (presented not taking part in the division of the pie, and close to Nicholas II as a sign of the Franco-Russian Union) and the Japanese emperor Meiji, who thought deeply about what pieces to take him. Behind them is a representative of the Qing court, who raised his hands to stop them, but to no avail.

1890

Japan. 1890 Caged prostitutes are shown to potential clients.

1887

Sunset of the samurai era, Japan, 1880s

1860

Japanese samurai training. 1860.

VI in: First Buddhists arrive in Japan from China with first cats

Cats were brought to Japan in the 6th century from China to protect against rodents of precious scrolls with Buddhist sutras. During this period, Buddhism had just come to Japan. In fact, the cats apparently came with the first missionaries of the new religion.

200 g BC.