<prompt> Rambai muchinyora ndima ino - Portugal neJapan zvakatanga kuwirirana muna 1543, apo vaPutukezi vakava vokuEurope vokutanga kusvika kuJapan nokumhara muchitsuwa chokumaodzanyemba. Vaiva nomugumisiro mukuru paJapan, kunyange mukubatana kwavo kwokutanga kwakaganhurirwa, vachiunza zvombo zvehondo kuhondo dzeJapan. The American Perry Expedition muna 185354 yakapedza zvizere kuzviparadzanisa kweJapan; izvi zvakabatsira kudonha kwe shogunate uye kudzoka kwesimba kumutongi panguva yeHondo yeBoshin muna 1868. Utungamiriri hutsva hwenyika hwenguva yaMeiji yakatevera hwakachinja nyika yechitsuwa yechifeudal yakaparadzaniswa kuva umambo hwakanyatsotevera mienzaniso yokuMadokero ndokuva simba guru. Kunyange zvazvo democracy yakatanga uye tsika dzemazuva ano dzevagari vemo dzakabudirira munguva yeTaishō 191226, mauto ane simba eJapan aiva nokuzvitonga kukuru uye akaramba vatungamiri vevanhu veJapan muma1920 nema1930. Mauto eJapane akapinda muManchuria muna 1931, uye kubvira muna 1937 kurwisana kwacho kwakakura kuva hondo yakareba neChina. Kurwisa kweJapan Pearl Harbor muna 1941 kwakatungamirira kuhondo neUnited States nevatsigiri vayo. Mauto eJapane akakurumidza kuva akakura zvikuru, asi mauto akaramba aripo pasinei zvapo nokurwiswa nendege kweVasonganiri uko kwakaparira kukuvadzwa kukuru kunzvimbo dzine vanhu vakawanda. Mambo Hirohito akazivisa kuzviisa pasi kweJapan  <response>: musi waAugust 15, 1945, pashure pokurwiswa kwebhomba reatomu paHiroshima neNagasaki uye kupinda kweSoviet muManchuria. 