Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Nobunaga Oda got the ball rolling, but the main player in the unification of Japan was Ieyasu Tokugawa. Ieyasu Tokugawa was invested as Shogun on the 2nd of December, 1603, following the Battle of Sekigahara during which all remaining opposition was crushed.
Tokugawa Ieyasu!
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Japan was eventually unified under Tokuagwa Ieyasu after his defeat of the final vestiges of the Toyotomi family at the Battle of Osaka in 1614 & 1615. This was the culmination of what is referred to as the Sengoku Jidai, or, Warring States Period, in Japan.
Nippon is simply a way to say Japan in Japanese. It is also called Nihon. *In much the same way, the United States is not called the United States in other languages (for instance we are the Estados Unidos in Spanish).
China did not side with Japan. The attack upon China unified both sides of the Chinese Civil War to defend China from Japan with assistance from the UK and the US.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
Before the start of the Edo period a shogun named Tokugawa Ieyasu united Japan thus creating an era of peace.
It was unified politically.
No
they were a unified empire that extended for over 1600 miles.
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Japan was never invented. Countries can only be theoretically formed. (or with plate-shifts they can be physically formed, but that's over millions of years and besides the point) Earliest forms of human life discovered in Japan dates back to around 100,000 to 30,000 BC. Then around 1600, the various kingdoms and fiefdoms of Samurai Japan were first unified under Tokugawa after the Battle of Sekigahara.
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Japan was eventually unified under Tokuagwa Ieyasu after his defeat of the final vestiges of the Toyotomi family at the Battle of Osaka in 1614 & 1615. This was the culmination of what is referred to as the Sengoku Jidai, or, Warring States Period, in Japan.
Nippon is simply a way to say Japan in Japanese. It is also called Nihon. *In much the same way, the United States is not called the United States in other languages (for instance we are the Estados Unidos in Spanish).
Unified military forces of Japan are called Japan Self-Defense Forces. JSDF, occasionally referred to as JSF or SDF.