CONTENTS
 
World History PicturePack Collection D: History of Japan
 
 Everything listed below is included in this single PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.

JA01: Japan Before 1185 A.D. ● A map of Japan and Korea ● Ainus bowing before a dead bear ● Torii, Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima Island ● Wedded Rocks or Meota-Iwa, in Futamiga-ura Bay ● Shinto shrine for Amaterasu, Sun Goddess ● The Inland Sea at sunrise ● Isibutai tomb at Asuka near Nara ● Prince Shotoku Taishi with courtiers ● Prince Shotoku Taishi with his two sons ● Prince Shotoku ● Cherry blossoms at the Kofukuji Temple, Nara ● The Daibutsu (Great Buddha) of Todaiji Temple ● Asuka, near Nara ● The Heian Shrine at Kyoto ● Lady Murasaki Shikibu ● A Tale of Genji scroll ● Amida Buddha seated on lotus in Byodoin Temple ● The Heiji (or Heike) civil war ● Smallpox fleeing from Minamoto Yoritomo
 

JA02: Japan 1185-1615: Kamakura, Ashikaga, Momoyama Periods ● Minamoto Yoritomo ● A bamboo grove in the Nembutsuji Temple, Kyoto ● Japanese warriors fighting the Chinese ● Japanese opposing a Mongol fleet ● Go-Daigo (d. 1338) ● Feudal warriors ● Peasant in Japanese countryside in winter ● Kinkakuji (the Golden Pavilion), at Kyoto ● A No drama ● The stone garden at Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto ● A Zen monk giving a lesson in calligraphy ● A tea ceremony (chanoyu) ● Shino ware ● A lacquered writing box of Momoyama period ● A lacquered box ● An early Japanese merchant ship ● St. Francis Xavier ● Alessandro Valignano, S.J. (1539-1606) ● Oda Nobunaga ● Toyotomi Hideyoshi ● A Japanese expedition against Korea ● Tokugawa Ieyasu, third and final unifier of Japan
 

JA03: Japan, Perry and Western Contact ● Nagoya Castle ● Ieyasu's forces capture Osaka Castle ● The Five-Storied Pagoda in winter at Nikko ● The persecution of Catholics from 1600 to 1650 ● Shimabara Castle ● The Dutch concession at Nagasaki ● Seppuku, warrior ritual suicide ● A Japanese scholar writing ● Procession of feudal lords along the Tokaido ● Bunraku, or puppet theater ● Kabuki stage at the National Theater, Tokyo ● A scene from The 47 Ronin ● Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, by Sakai Hoitsu ● Print of Japanese sailing vessel or junk ca. 1855 ● Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) ● Delivery of Fillmore's letter to the Japanese ● Commodore Perry presents gifts to the Japanese ● Perry's dinner with Japanese officials, 1864 ● Townsend Harris, first American Consul General ● The Earl of Elgin lands at Jeddo, 1858 ● Japanese Treaty Commission, 1860 ● The Ouru Catholic cathedral ● The last Tokugawa Shogun, Yoshinobu or Keiki ● The Emperor Mutsuhito (reigned 1867-1912) ● Emperor Meiji enters Edo Castle ● Emperor Meiji opens Parliament ● Ito Hirobumi, exemplified new mobility ● The Toshogu Shrine in Nikko ● Samurai armor ● The Custom House at Yokohama, ca. 1861
 

JA04: Japanese Militarism ● Japanese and Chinese cavalry, Sino-Japanese War ● The Japanese occupation of P'yongyang, Korea ● The Japanese battleship Shikishima ● Russian battleship hit by Japanese at Tsushima ● Japanese gun at Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War ● Russians arrive at Portsmouth Treaty Conference ● General Nogi Maresuke and Admiral Togo Heihachiro ● Formal photograph of Admiral Togo in uniform ● General Nogi at Port Arthur ● A map of East Asia ● The Peace Conference at Versailles, 1919 ● "Big Nine" at World Disarmament Conference, 1921 ● World Disarmament Conference in session, 1921 ● U.S. Secretary of State & French Foreign Minister ● A May Day demonstration, ca. 1934 ● A portrait of Emperor Hirohito ● The assassination of Prime Minister Hamaguchi ● Meeting of Minseito Party managers, January 1937 ● Three Banzai for the emperor ● General Suzuki, Kwantung commander, Manchuria ● The Lytton Commission ● Police in front of the Diet, 1933 ● Troops during the 1936 Mutiny ● An Axis rally in Tokyo, 1937 ● Wreckage of Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7th ● Roosevelt asking Congress to declare war on Japan ● Cavite naval yards after Japanese raid ● Prisoners during infamous Bataan Death March ● The last days of Singapore, 1942 ● Indian Sikh gunners in Singapore ● Divine Soldiers Descend on Palembamg ● Japanese drawing, Start of Burma Campaign ● Japanese carrier Shoho is torpedoed ● Japanese cruiser on fire in battle, Midway Island ● U.S.Aleutian Islands base during air raid, 1942 ● U.S. 3rd Amphibious Task Force off Guadalcanal ● A U.S. paratroop drop in New Guinea ● American B-25 bombers attacking Rabaul ● American Infantry during Kwajalein fighting ● General MacArthur going ashore in Lingayen Gulf ● The U.S. carrier Suwanee ● A kamikaze attack ● Gurkha soldiers of British 14th Army in Burma ● Flying Tigers of American 14th Air Force ● Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya under attack ● Marpi Point, Saipan ● A Japanese torpedo bomber ● Amphibious tanks approaching Iwo Jima ● U.S. marines blasting a cave on Okinawa, 1945 ● On Okinawa, Himeyuri Memorial to Japanese nurses 
 

JA05: WWII Ends, A New Japan Begins ● WBomb damage in Tokyo ● Hiroshima after the atomic explosion ● Surrender ceremony which ended the Pacific War ● MacArthur and Hirohito ● The Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo ● General Tojo Hideki at war crimes trial, 1948 ● The Diet in session ● Yoshida Shigeru leads banzai for emperor ● Terraces of Imperial Palace being cultivated ● Yoshida signs the treaty of peace ● Tanaka campaigning ● The Tokyo skyline ● Traders in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1949 ● Tokyo policeman breathes oxygen in city's smog ● The Ginza in Tokyo ● A thermal power plant in Osaka ● A pasture with a combine, in Kushiro ● An automated factory ● A wedding at the Meiji Shrine ● The Imperial Palace, Tokyo ● Former Prime Minister Nakasone ● Mt. Fuji and the Tokyo Express ● Kiichi Miyazawa (b. 1919)