Year in Japan

708 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Asuka period (飛鳥時代, 538 – 710).

Era name: Wadō 和銅 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Wadō 和銅 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 708 to 715

Reading the year 708 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 708 corresponds to Wadō 和銅 (year 1 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 708年 (708ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 8th century for its neighbours.