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At 10,000 BCE a society called Yamatai existed that had many elements similar to Japanese culture. Yamatai seems to have been part of the remains of sunken Lemuria, per Pictish accounts. Conan, early in his youth, encounters a blind warrior from Yamatai. In an adventure involving shards of the Talisman of Tolometh (Tolometh had connections to Poseidonis), the blind warrior from Yamatai, Shimata-Kawa, died. Conan later faced Nojingo, the witch-queenline of Yamatai. Yamatai was an east of Khitai with a sacred volcano (perhaps Mount Fuji). Conan met Yuki-Onna and her armored woman warriors, in a stronghold in a volcano. Nojingo's father was Tawaraline Sho. Nojingo summoned the wind demon Vuu-shiin. Tawaraline Sho awakened Yuro-Jiin, the huge tortoise on whose broad back all of Yamatai was said to rest.
In undefined ancient times (but presumably post-Hyborian), the exiled god Susa-No-O-Izumo, defeated the eight-forked serpent of Koshi. He found a perfect sword in the belly of the dragon. He took this sword to Amaterasu. This sword eventually acquired the name of Kusanagi-No-Tsurugi.
Circa 81-110 CE Prince Yamato Take uses Susano's sword, the Kusanagi-No-Tsurugi.
Circa 1000 CE, Izanagi, a Japanese god, attends a gathering of the gods of Earth that discusses the threat of the Celestials
Circa 1281 a storm saves Japan from a Mongol fleet. These winds gain the name "Kamikaze".
During the Japanese Feudal period Gilgamesh, the Eternal Warrior was reincarnated as a Japanese samurai. He is called upon to slay a woman named Akima who was killed and turned into a demonic creature. Freeing her soul, Gilgamesh returns to the sleep of death. Ho-Ti, the Japanese god, has a misadventure during this general period. Black Axe worked in the time of feudal Japan's daimyo. He observed as Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa united Japan.
In 1582 the dragon the Wani attacks humans for the O-Wata-Tsu-Mi, but a Japanese warrior stops him.
1615 saw Albert and Gracie Destine prevent a coup against the Tokugawa shoguns.
In 1834 a Russian and Japanese group of explorers discovered a massive crude oil deposit in Alaska. They made a map to the crude oil deposit, but the explorers died while trying to make the trip back. In 1882, a group of Russian merchant sailors discovered that a group of Inuits had found the map to the oil deposit. The Emperor Mutushito of Japan was informed as to the map's discovery.
1885 saw Mutushito dispatch samurai such as Hijiro Nguri and Shintaro Aiichi as part of a plan to assert Japanese control over the oil.
1920's saw the resurgence of the Cult of the Black Blade.
The 1930's witnessed Tengu of the Shadowmasters active in Japan. The apparently immortal warrior Ogun served in the Japanese Army. He met Logan several times and once possibly the Ancient One, the former Sorcerer Supreme.
In 1932 Japanese troops move into Manchuria. Shiro Ishii begins experiments in biological warfare. Later, in 1940, a reporter in China fleeing Japanese aggression became the Blazing Skull.
In 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Red Hargrove, a friend of Nick Fury, dies in the attack. A man apparently named Tarver serving a cook shot down a Japanese plane.
In the 1950's, atomic testing revived many monsters, mostly notably Godzilla, who would attack Japan. Logan saw some of these attacks. Monster Island is located near Japan. Apparently two Monster Islands exist; that of the Mole Man and one used by the Japanese government. (It has also been hinted that the US government has dumped creatures there.)
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