Prehistory | ยุคก่อนประวัติศาสตร์

• Paleolithic period | ยุคหินเก่า 35,000 BCE – 14,000 BCE

  (旧石器時代, kyūsekki jidai)

• Jōmon period (縄文時代, Jōmon jidai) c. 14,000–300 BCE ยุคโจมง

• Yayoi period 1,000 and 800 BCE. (弥生時代, Yayoi jidai)

• Kofun period (c. 250–538) (古墳時代, Kofun jidai)

• Asuka period  (飛鳥時代, Asuka jidai) 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645)

Classical Japan

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Nara period (710–794)

Kamakura period (1185–1333)

Muromachi period (1333–1568)

Azuchi–Momoyama period (1568-1600)

Early modern Japan

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Edo period (1600–1868)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

Taishō period (1912–1926)

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

Heisei period (1989–2019)