This book will guide the reader through the pages of Japanese history from the beginning of the 17th century. to the present. The book opens with the brilliant era of the Tokugawa shogunate Ieyasu, which began in 1603 in the castle of Fu simi. It ends the XX century. This is a story about a nation whose power and rich culture glorified it all over the world. The rise and fall of the samurai class, the restoration of imperial power in the Meiji era, the heyday of imperial Japan after the victory over Russia, the immersion of the country in the abyss of a devastating war, the occupation of Japan and its restoration in the post-war period... On the pages of the book, we also see the daily life of the Japanese, taking shape in the overall picture of social history. All facts and events are presented not from the point of view of a Western person, but through the prism of the worldview of the Japanese themselves.