from Nihon Shogi (“The Chronicles of Japan”) The Nihon Shoki (also known as the Nihongi) is the second oldest work of Japanese history, predated only by the Kojiki (“Records of Ancient ...

According to the Nihon Shoki, the second-oldest book of Japanese history, around 2,000 years ago Princess Yamato-hime was ordered by her father, Emperor Suinin, to find a new, permanent shrine for ...

The earliest reference to gambling in Japan -- found in the eighth-century, 31-volume "Nihon Shoki (Chronicle of Japan)" -- states that in 685 AD, Emperor Temmu passed the time playing a dice game ...