After the Great Ice Age, Japan separated from the Asian mainland and became the island that we know today. Trace the roots of Japanese history, from 50,000 BCE to 1185 CE.

Originally released by Film Ideas, 2004. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 02, 2015.

Japanese History from the Dawn of the Culture to Feudalism (7:36); --Japanese History from the First Emperor of Heaven to the Shoguns (8:49).