The ENTIRE History of Japan in 21 Minutes

In 1945, millions of Japanese heard their emperor's voice for the first time — and he was announcing defeat. Yet the same family has sat on Japan's throne for longer than any other dynasty on Earth. The ENTIRE History of Japan, from the Jomon potters to the bullet train. This Japan history documentary covers the first people and rice farming, Queen Himiko, the giant kofun tombs, Prince Shotoku and the land of the rising sun, Nara and Kyoto, the Tale of Genji, the Fujiwara regents, the rise of the samurai, the Genpei War and Dan-no-ura, the first shogun, the Mongol invasions and the kamikaze, the Onin War and the Sengoku period, guns at Tanegashima, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sekigahara, the closed country and Dejima, Edo, Commodore Perry's black ships, the Meiji Restoration, the end of the samurai, the empire and the Pacific War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Jewel Voice Broadcast, and Japan's postwar miracle. How did Japan get its name? Why did the samurai rule instead of the emperor? How did one family survive 1,500 years of recorded history? Subscribe to Painted Past for more stories of how nations were made. CHAPTERS 0:00 A voice on the radio 2:14 The questions 2:52 The first people 4:55 The birth of Japan 7:30 The samurai 9:14 The Mongols and the divine wind 10:34 The warring states 13:25 250 years behind a closed door 15:08 The black ships 17:13 Empire and war 19:15 Noon, 15 August 1945 20:04 The miracle SOURCES Conrad Totman, "A History of Japan" (2005) Marius Jansen, "The Making of Modern Japan" (2000) Andrew Gordon, "A Modern History of Japan" (2003) Thomas Conlan, "In Little Need of Divine Intervention" (2001) Stephen Turnbull, "The Samurai: A Military History" (1977) "The Tale of the Heike", tr. Helen McCullough (1988) Illustrations are artistic reconstructions created with AI tools; narration uses a synthetic voice. #Japan #JapanHistory #History #Samurai #HistoryDocumentary