Time Line of Japan

• Ainu thriving in Japan (c. 38,000 B.C.)

• Jomon culture in Japan (c. 12,000 B.C.)

• first pottery in Japan (c. 10,000 B.C.)

• rice farming begins in Japan (c. 300 B.C.)

• Jimmu Tenno becomes the first emperor of Japan (c. 300 A.D.)
• first states in Japan (c. 300 A.D.)

• first records of Japanese history (400 A.D.)

• Buddhism reaches Japan (c. 500 A.D.)

• Prince Shotoku creates the first Japanese constitution (c. 600 A.D.)
• rise of feudal nobility in Japan> (636 A.D.)

• Nara, the first capital of Japan is established (710 A.D.)