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| c. 1650 |
| | | The pleasure districts of Edo and Kyoto provide the delights of ukiyo-e, the 'floating world' | |
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| c. 1650 |
| | | Japan's popular theatre, kabuki, develops as a form of café entertainment | |
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| c. 1670 |
| | | Members of the Sakaida Kakiemon family are producing exquisitely decorated porcelain ware in Japan | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | Dutch traders purchase Kakiemon wares in Japan for import to the Netherlands | |
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| c. 1780 |
| | | Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro is a master of colour woodcuts, often depicting the courtesan district of Edo | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Hokusai begins to publish his famous colour-printed views of Mount Fuji | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Commodore Matthew Perry, commanding a powerful US fleet, persuades the Japanese to open their country to western trade – ending their period of isolation | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Japan and China go to war over Korea, with disastrous results for China | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Japan's navy destroys the remains of China's fleet at Weihaiwei | |
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| 1895 |
| | | At the end of the Sino-Japanese war China cedes to Japan the island of Taiwan, together with Port Arthur and the Liadong peninsula | |
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