1603 The Tokugawa shogunate, a feudal military dictatorship, is established. 1854 Japan signs trade treaty with U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry, after Perry threatens to bombard coastal cities.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a young man ... clan eliminated their Taira enemies and established the first shogunate, or military dictatorship, with Minamoto Yoritomo as its leader.

On the opposing side was the Tokugawa Shogunate, a continuation of the military dictatorship comprised of elite samurai which had ruled Japan since 1192. Although the Tokugawa shogun, or leader ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture) in 1543. While still a young boy, the future founder of the Tokugawa shogunate ... giving him total military control over the ...

Rise of the Ronin takes place during the historical period of Japan known as the Bakumatsu period, during the closing stages of the shogunate - a hereditary military dictatorship that had gripped ...

The Tokugawa ... The shogunate then launched a punitive expedition against Chōshū as an enemy of the court. The powerful domains of Satsuma and Chōshū experienced foreign military might ...