A History of Japan Stanford University Press, 1974 The Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the U.S. Department of State presents the full text of the fact sheet entitled "History of Japan," published June 26, 2000. The fact sheet covers premodern Japan, Japan's first contact with the West in 1542, World War I and II, and postwar Japan. After World War II, Japan lost all of its overseas possessions, retaining only the home islands. |
