According to the Kojiki (the first documentation of Japan’s history), Jimmu, the descendent of sun goddess Amaterasu, descended from the heavens to launch a war to become the nation’s first ...

The first emperor was Emperor Jimmu, who is said to have begun his reign and built an empire around 660 BC. According to Japanese chronicles, his great-great-grandmother was the sun goddess ...

"since Emperor Jimmu") is probably the most hyperbolic expression ever coined in Japanese. When the Japanese economy took off phenomenally in the 1950s, it was dubbed the "Jimmu keiki" (Jimmu ...