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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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Plan ancien de l’île artificielle de Dejima à Nagasaki, comptoir hollandais en éventail durant la fermeture du Japon.
JapaneseHistoire14 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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