Question: what is the name of the period in japanese history that began in 1868
Answer: government 538 -- 710 Classical Japan Asuka 710 -- 794 Nara 794 -- 1185 Heian 1185 -- 1333 Medieval Japan Kamakura Kamakura shogunate 1333 -- 1336 Kenmu Restoration Imperial government 1336 -- 1392 Muromachi Nanboku - chō period Ashikaga shogunate 1392 -- 1467 1467 -- 1573 Sengoku period Ashikaga shogunate and sengoku daimyōs 1573 -- 1603 Azuchi -- Momoyama Oda Nobunaga , Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu 1603 -- 1868 Early Modern Japan Edo Tokugawa period Tokugawa shogunate 1868 -- 1912 Modern Japan Meiji Pre-war Imperial government 1912 -- 1926 Taishō 1926 -- 1945 Shōwa ( Prewar ) 1945 -- 1952 Contemporary Japan Shōwa ( Occupied Post-war ) Post-war GHQ / SCAP 1952 -- 1989 Shōwa ( Post-occupation ) Parliamentary democracy 1989 -- present Heisei