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| 1908 |
| | The Empress Dowager Cixi dies the day after selecting the infant Puyi for the Chinese throne | |
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| 1909 |
| | Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts | |
| | Stoneware box, Bernard Leach Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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| 1910 |
| | Japan annexes Korea as a colony, to be controlled by a Japanese governor-general | |
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| 1911 |
| | Bernard Leach discovers his skill and future craft at a raku party in Japan, where each guest is invited to throw a pot | |
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| 1912 |
| | Tibet declares its independence after the fall of the Qing dynasty and the end of imperial China | |
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| 1913 |
| | Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president | |
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| 1914 August 23 |
| | Japan, with her own local agenda in the far east, declares war on Germany | |
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| 1920 |
| | The Japanese potter Shoji Hamada accompanies Bernard Leach on his return to England | |
| | Stoneware jug, Shoji Hamada Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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| 1926 |
| | 25-year-old Hirohito succeeds to the imperial throne of Japan after five years as prince regent | |
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| 1931 |
| | The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria | |
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