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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Tokugawa
What is Tokugawa?
Shogun dynasty that ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 and enforced the country's closure.
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