The COMPLETE History of Japan in 17 Minutes
From a chain of earthquake-prone islands to the world's third-largest economy today, this is the complete history of Japan in one continuous story. Follow the Jomon and Yayoi peoples, the Yamato court, Nara and Heian Japan, the rise of the samurai, the Mongol invasions, the age of warring states, the Tokugawa peace, Commodore Perry's black ships, the Meiji Restoration, the road to World War II, the American occupation, and the postwar economic miracle.

The central question: how did geography, power, and national identity shape one another across two thousand years?

Key events covered: Himiko's envoys to Wei (239), the Taiho Code (701), the founding of Nara (710) and Kyoto (794), the Battle of Dan-no-ura (1185), the Mongol invasions (1274 and 1281), the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), Perry's arrival (1853), the Meiji Restoration (1868), the surrender of Japan (1945), and the Constitution of 1947.

Note: Dates and events follow mainstream historical scholarship. Where historians disagree, such as the location of Yamatai and the earliest generations of the imperial line, the narration says so.

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