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"Sakoku" Does Not Mean Closing Off the Country, It Just Means Restrictions - There Were Diplomatic Routes Other than Nagasaki
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"Sakoku" (national isolation) was the most impactful policy in the Edo period. It's probably something even elementary school students know about, but when did this word first appear in Japan? If you're not a person who knows the Edo period, you probably can't answer. It was in 1801. It started when Shizuki Tadao, a Dutch interpreter in Nagasaki, translated a book by German doctor Engelbert Kaempfer. This German had worked in Dejima, and transla…
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