When and how was Japan being unified as a nation?

Question

thanks cowboydoc :) but i did mean the medieval Japan. i am sorry for the misunderstanding BUT tks for your many sharing to my WW2 questions. appreciate yours and bear's regular contribution :)

Answer 1

This is one of those questions wherein nit pickers creep out of the woodwork waving fac`ts & stats arguing that this date or another is right because, measured by modern standards, the actual unification resulted from a modern set of criteria. In short, there have been many upheavels in the history of Japan and like that other island nation England it can be quibbled as to what is 'unified.' In Japans case several not so Civil Wars have left the following options....

The 4th Century by Christian/Common reckoning..

http://web-japan.org/museum/historyofjp/histjp.html
"""In the fourth century, ancestors of the present imperial family established Japan's first unified state under what is known as the Yamato court. During this period, manufactured articles, weapons, and agricultural tools were introduced from China and Korea. The period is named after the huge mounded tombs (kofun) that were built for the political elite. These tombs were often surrounded with clay cylinders and figurines called haniwa.""

But the Naysayers will say 1588 - 1591 AD

http://web-japan.org/museum/historyofjp/histjp.html
""The nation was reunified by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (foremost among the Sengoku warlords) who respectively ruled it briefly. In the arts, this was a period of increased contact with Europeans, who had begun to visit Japan earlier in the century. In place of the Buddhist influence of earlier periods, a lavishly ornate decorative style was developed at the hands of the warlords and the emerging merchant classes in the towns. This new style reached its height in Nobunaga's Azuchi Castle and Hideyoshi's Momoyama and Osaka castles. At this time the tea master Sen no Rikyu developed the tea ceremony into an esthetic discipline that is known as the Way of Tea."""

Peace------------------

Answer 2

I don't know about "bearstirringfromacave" but, knowing about your back ground I think you mean after WW2, do I not?

If so, MacArthur was chosen as the President of Japan after the war and, was to set up a government and start a congress and house. I think your going to have to go into history books for all the facts because I'm not going to guess. Mac was pulled out just before the Korean conflict to run the war there so he must have been in Japan for about eight years.
Japan is history I guess you could say.