
Age of Empires 2: Japanese
Infantry civilization
Bonuses
- Mills, Lumber- and Mining Camps cost -50%
- Infantry attacks +33% faster starting in Feudal Age
- Cavalry Archers +2 attack vs. Ranged Soldiers (except Skirmishers)
- Fishing Ships work +5/10/15/20% faster in Dark/Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age; +100% HP
Unique units
- Samurai (Infantry)
Team bonus
Galley-line +4 line of sight
Unique technologies
- Yasama (Watch Tower-line fires additional arrows)
- Kataparuto (Trebuchets attack and pack/unpack faster)
Tech tree
Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 13 of 63 are missing for this civilization.
Barracks
- Champion✓ yes
- Halberdier✓ yes
- Elite Eagle Warrior✗ no
Archery Range
- Arbalester✓ yes
- Elite Skirmisher✓ yes
- Heavy Cavalry Archer✓ yes
- Hand Cannoneer✓ yes
Stable
- Knight✓ yes
- Cavalier✓ yes
- Paladin✗ no
- Hussar✗ no
- Heavy Camel Rider✗ no
- Imperial Camel Rider✗ no
Siege Workshop
- Siege Onager✗ no
- Siege Ram✗ no
- Heavy Scorpion✓ yes
- Bombard Cannon✗ no
Dock
- Galleon✓ yes
- Cannon Galleon✓ yes
Blacksmith
- Forging✓ yes
- Iron Casting✓ yes
- Blast Furnace✓ yes
- Fletching✓ yes
- Bodkin Arrow✓ yes
- Bracer✓ yes
- Scale Mail Armor✓ yes
- Chain Mail Armor✓ yes
- Plate Mail Armor✓ yes
- Scale Barding Armor✓ yes
- Chain Barding Armor✓ yes
- Plate Barding Armor✗ no
- Padded Archer Armor✓ yes
- Leather Archer Armor✓ yes
- Ring Archer Armor✓ yes
Economy
- Hand Cart✓ yes
- Crop Rotation✗ no
- Two-Man Saw✓ yes
- Gold Shaft Mining✓ yes
- Stone Shaft Mining✗ no
- Treadmill Crane✓ yes
Military technologies
- Squires✓ yes
- Thumb Ring✓ yes
- Bloodlines✓ yes
- Husbandry✓ yes
- Conscription✓ yes
- Arson✓ yes
University
- Chemistry✓ yes
- Ballistics✓ yes
- Murder Holes✓ yes
- Siege Engineers✓ yes
- Heated Shot✗ no
- Hoardings✓ yes
- Sappers✗ no
Monastery
- Redemption✓ yes
- Fervor✓ yes
- Sanctity✓ yes
- Illumination✓ yes
- Block Printing✓ yes
- Herbal Medicine✓ yes
- Theocracy✓ yes
- Faith✓ yes
- Devotion✓ yes
- Atonement✓ yes
Similar civilizations
Civilizations the game describes with the same focus.
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Bonuses, tech trees and names come from the game's official text via aoe2techtree, which is generated from the game files (October 4, 2026). aoe2techtree
