Ancient and Classical Japan
By the end of the 4th century, the Yamato clan was well settled on the Nara plain with considerable control over the surrounding areas. Five kings of Wa sent envoys to China for the dominion of the Japanese Islands and a Korean peninsula. The Nihon Shoki described that Yamato was even strong enough to have sent an army against the powerful state of Goguryeo, which dominated the Korean Peninsula at the time. Yamato Japan had close relations with the southwestern Korean kingdom of Baekje. In 663, Japan, supporting Baekje, was defeated the allied forces of Tang China and Silla in Korean Peninsula (the Battle of Hakusonko). As a result, the Japanese were banished from the Korean Peninsula. To defend the Japanese Archipelago, a military base was constructed in Dazaifu, Fukuoka of Kyushu.
Near the end of the Heian period, the samurai became a powerful political force, thus starting the feudal period.
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