The article examines the study of the civilizational development of Japan. The purpose of the study is a thorough analysis of the work of the orientalist, academician Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad, who devoted more than 40 years of his life to the study of Japanese civilization, especially the history of its culture. N. Konrad is considered one of the first who was able to apply a comparative approach to Japanese culture with the cultures of the East and West, which subsequently allowed a new assessment of the contribution of Japanese civilization to world culture. The main conclusion of this study is that the legacy of N. Konrad is fundamental in the study of Japanese history, culture, literature and language, and his translations and commentaries on Japanese literature have become an important tool for understanding the Japanese people and their way of life.

The history of our country cannot be studied without legal documents, memoirs of ambassadors and merchants, and manuscript books. The history of our great ancestors Amir Temur and the Timurid era is rich in sources. Among them, there are many very expensive and high-level ones. We will briefly touch on the most important of them.

This article examines the economic relations between Turkey and Uzbekistan after the independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

This article analyzed the development of socio-political thoughts in Movarounnahr in the XIV-XV centuries. In the Middle Ages, a number of sciences developed and flourished in Movarounnahr. Among these, the science of tafsir (exegesis of the Qur'an) also passed its stage of development. In the 14th and 15th centuries, science was highly developed in Movarounnahr and the knowledge of the scientists who lived and worked in that period was mentioned.