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    Sakoku (鎖国 / 鎖國, "locked country") is the most common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the...
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  • The Sakoku Edict (Sakoku-rei, 鎖国令) of 1635 was a Japanese decree intended to eliminate foreign influence, enforced by strict government rules and regulations...
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    the ruling Tokugawa shogunate retreated into an isolationist policy, the Sakoku. During this "locked state", contact with Japan by Westerners was restricted...
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  • Vexille (ベクシル 2077日本鎖国, Bekushiru 2077 Nihon sakoku, lit. "Vexille: 2077 Japanese Isolation") is a 2007 Japanese CGI anime film, written, directed, and...
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    class system and banned most foreigners under the isolationist policies of Sakoku to promote political stability. The Tokugawa shoguns governed Japan in a...
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    conduct to control the autonomous daimyō, and in 1639 the isolationist sakoku ("closed country") policy that spanned the two and a half centuries of tenuous...
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    the Edo Period: Sakoku Reexamined". Journal of Japanese Studies 8:2 (1982). pp. 283–306. Toby, Ronald. "Reopening the Question of Sakoku: Diplomacy in the...
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    Within the Jōō period, Japan was implementing the Sakoku policy which adopted by Tokugawa Bakumatsu. Sakoku (鎖国) means closed country in Japanese. Japan was...
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    1573–1603 Edo (Tokugawa) Tokugawa shogunate Invasion of Ryukyu Siege of Osaka Sakoku Perry Expedition Convention of Kanagawa Bakumatsu Meiji Restoration Boshin...
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    (1868 to 1912), after Japan ended its policy of national self-isolation (sakoku), and curry in Japan was categorised as a Western dish. Its spread across...
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    samurai) on the shores of Kyushu at Usuki in Ōita Prefecture. During the Sakoku period (1641–1853), there were no formal relations between the two countries...
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    against the threat of being colonized, bringing to an end the era known as sakoku. The word "Meiji" means "enlightened rule" and the goal was to combine "modern...
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    women were forbidden to enter the country under the Tokugawa shogunate's Sakoku policy which kept Japan extremely secluded. Tanaka nevertheless speculates...
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  • in the late 18th-century, during the period of Japanese history known as Sakoku. The novel begins in the summer of 1799 at the Dutch East India Company...
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  • Irish smuggler who is allied with the Shogun, in secret defiance of Japan's Sakoku closed-door policies. He plans to overthrow the current Shogun and replace...
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    effectively meant the end of Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion (sakoku) by opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels. It also...
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  • Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from French and German, due to France and Germany's...
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    direct trade and exchange between Japan and the outside world during the Sakoku period. Nagasaki Prefecture is home to several of the Hidden Christian Sites...
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    lucrative contracts. When Japan emerged from the self-imposed, pre-Meiji era sakoku in 1867, Western countries already had very dominant and internationally...
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    became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate after the end of Japan's sakoku isolationist policy. Under the alias Saitani Umetarō (才谷梅太郎), he worked...
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    military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the...
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    was continued by the Dutch Indies government at Batavia. According to the Sakoku rules of the Tokugawa shogunate, the VOC had to transfer and replace the...
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  • the western influence after the forced reopening of Japan following the Sakoku period. The story follows the Blade Twins, whose genders are selected by...
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    the secularization of land and property belonging to the Catholic Church. Sakoku Edict (1635), the third of a series issued by Tokugawa Iemitsu, shōgun of...
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  • Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London 4 April 2013 Japan's Sakoku Period Richard Bowring, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies at the University...
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    1573–1603 Edo (Tokugawa) Tokugawa shogunate Invasion of Ryukyu Siege of Osaka Sakoku Perry Expedition Convention of Kanagawa Bakumatsu Meiji Restoration Boshin...
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  • 1573–1603 Edo (Tokugawa) Tokugawa shogunate Invasion of Ryukyu Siege of Osaka Sakoku Perry Expedition Convention of Kanagawa Bakumatsu Meiji Restoration Boshin...
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  • the COVID pandemic. Haijin – Isolationist policy in early modern China Sakoku – Japanese isolationist policy from 1633–1853 Kim Il Sung – Supreme Leader...
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    foreign relations Hotta Masayoshi Convention of Kanagawa Gaikoku bugyō Sakoku Sakuradamon Incident Treaty ports "Establishment of Tariff Duties with Respect...
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    than 200 years, beginning in the 1640s, the Japanese policy of seclusion ("sakoku") forbade contacts with the outside world and prohibited the construction...
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