Japan

Japan is a country in eastern Asia that occupies a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean roughly parallel with the eastern coast of the Asiatic mainland.
== History ==
From the late 19th century Japan began a modernizing process that eventually made it into a major world power. It fought wars against China 1894-95 and Russia 1904-05, and after World War I occupied Manchuria 1931 and invaded China 1937. Japan entered World War II on the Axis side with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The country surrendered in 1945 after the US dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is now a highly industrialized country and the leading economic power in the region.
=== Edo Period, Mid-17th Century ===
==== 1641: Feudal Japan ====
In the Kansai Region, on the island of Honshu in the vicinity of Kyoto, the Shogun at the time was Tokugawa Iemitsu (Iemitsu Tokugawa), a particularly brutal warlord, with men trained in the art of war by Shimura himself. The reason he sticks out in the history books is because he liked to murder his wives,
In Samurai tradition, a warrior is always prepared for death, and a woman celebrates when her husband dies with honor.
== Trivia ==
* Ninjas are a secret brotherhood of men trained in the art of assassination.
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