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  1. catalogued as [129-?]; authenticity undeterminedMap of the Far East and adjacent Pacific, known as Map with Ship
  2. circa 1410–1412Opening of the Livre des merveilles du monde
  3. 1507East Asia on Waldseemüller's world map
  4. 1516 map; later reproductionEast Asia in the Carta marina
  5. 1528Ciampagu in Bordone's Isolario
  6. 1528The gold and invasion of Ciampagu
  7. late 16th–early 17th centuryMatchlock Gun of Horio Yoshiharu
  8. 1586Newe Zeyttung auss der Insel Japonien
  9. 1602 edition; map first issued 1595The First Map of Japan in the Atlas
  10. 1615Portrait of Hasekura Tsunenaga
  11. first quarter 17th centuryArrival of the Europeans
  12. 1627–1632; depicts the 1597 executionsTwenty-three Christian Martyrs in Japan
  13. 1735Het koninkryk Japan
  14. 1752An Accurate Map of Japan
  15. c. 1759Japanese Screen with a VOC Ship and a Chinese Junk
  16. 1790–1810Dutchmen at a Meal
  17. c. 1830–1844Dish with a Map of Japan and Inscription
  18. 1833–1836View of Deshima
  19. 1853Illustration of Foreign Ships from North America
  20. March 31, 1854Treaty of Kanagawa, English-Language Version
  21. 1856First Landing at Gorahama
  22. c. 1861Foreigners Enjoying Themselves in the Gankirō
  23. 9th month, 1861Foreigners in the Drawing Room of Foreign Merchant's House in Yokohama
  24. September 6, 1864British Naval Landing Party in the Maedamura Battery, Shimonoseki
  25. 1870s–1890sUmbrella Maker
  26. ca. 1872The Japanese Robe
  27. 1873View of the Japanese Pavilion at the Vienna World’s Fair
  28. dated 1876Incense Box
  29. 1881Illustration of the Museum at the Second National Industrial Exhibition in Ueno
  30. 1881Japonisme
  31. March 23, 1904The Yellow Peril
  32. April 3, 1904Blancs et Jaunes
  33. October 22, 1905; published 1907The Triumphal Return of Admiral Togo from the Sea of Japan
  34. September 22, 1909No Limit
  35. 1910Commemorative Photographic Album of Korea in the Empire of Great Japan
  36. May 26, 1924Immigration Act of 1924, Section 13(c)
  37. 1932“The Truth of the Incident’s Outbreak,” from Photographic Album of the Manchurian Incident
  38. December 7, 1941Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
  39. February 19, 1942Executive Order 9066
  40. April 1, 1942Evacuees of Japanese Ancestry Awaiting Buses for Manzanar at Lone Pine
  41. ca. 1942–1945“Tokio Kid Say—Much Waste of Material Make So-o-o-o Happy!”
  42. May 13, 1943Company E, 442nd Infantry Regiment, in Formation at Camp Shelby
  43. September 27, 1945General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito at the U.S. Embassy
  44. April 10, 1946Voters at the Yotsuya Ward Office in Japan’s First Postwar General Election
  45. September 8, 1951Shigeru Yoshida and Dean Acheson after the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty Signing
  46. December 10, 1956Japanese Employees in the Ordnance Workshop at Camp Drake
  47. February 1974Stacked Autos Are Crushed and Shipped to Japan, Then Return as Toyotas and Datsuns
  48. July 2, 1981Japanese Auto Export Restraints Briefing Paper
  49. Console introduced December 3, 1994; photograph March 20, 2014Japanese Sony PlayStation SCPH-1000 with controller and memory card
  50. August 31, 2008Hayao Miyazaki at the 2008 Venice Film Festival
  51. December 1, 2011Wasabi sushi and bento takeaway at London Victoria station
  52. July 6, 2018Visitors and exhibitors at Japan Expo near Paris
  53. November 14, 2018Tourists in the bamboo grove at Arashiyama, Kyoto
  54. September 3, 2019Cool Japan Strategy, examples of foreign opinions and soft-power objective