History14 min
Sakoku: How Japan Closed Itself to the World
The history of sakoku, Japan's closure under the Tokugawa. Edicts, Dejima, Christian persecution, Perry's black ships, and the nuance historians now stress.
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Sakoku
What is Sakoku?
Japan's policy of national seclusion (1639-1853) that cut nearly all ties with the outside world.
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