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History of Japan Quiz

Can you name these people, places, and things from Japanese history?
Quiz by Aaron197
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Last updated: July 5, 2024
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First submittedOctober 13, 2019
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Japan's capital before 1868
Kyoto
Event hosted in 1964 and 2021
Summer Olympics
Military nobility of pre-industrial Japan
Samurai
Term for a military ruler of feudal Japan
that ruled for 700 years
Shōgun
First European country to reach Japan
Portugal
Chinese city where Japan
massacred about 300,000 people
Nanjing
Hokusai's most famous painting
The Great Wave
off Kanagawa
Type of Buddhism introduced to
Japan in the 12th century
Zen
Nuclear plant that melted
down in 2011
Fukushima
Marshal Admiral who was the
mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack
Isoroku Yamamoto
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Japanese Emperor during WWII
Hirohito
Region Karate originated from
Okinawa
Former name of Tokyo
Edo
Country Japan fought against
between 1904–1905
Russia
Cities struck by Atomic bombs
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
American general who led
the Allied occupation of Japan
Douglas
MacArthur
P.M. assassinated in 2022
Shinzo Abe
What Francis Xavier
introduced to Japan
Christianity
Emperor who made Japan into
an industrialized world power
Meiji
2 Comments
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Level 69
Aug 13, 2020
Japan is an island filled with volcanoes and it's B E A U T I F U L !
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Level 67
Jul 8, 2024
Glad to help to lower the percentages of well answered questions :P