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  2. Sakoku - Wikipedia

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    Sakoku (鎖国 / 鎖國, "chained country") is the most common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almost all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the ...

  3. Bakumatsu - Wikipedia

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    Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.

  4. Sakoku Edict of 1635 - Wikipedia

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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 to impose these ideas. It was the third of a series issued by Tokugawa Iemitsu , [ citation needed ] shōgun of Japan from 1623 to 1651.

  5. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    The last states of Gaya confederacy are destroyed, ... resulting in a 32-years long peaceful period. 814: ... The Sakoku Edict of 1635 was issued by the Tokugawa ...

  6. Tokugawa shogunate - Wikipedia

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    The Tokugawa shogunate (/ ˌ t oʊ k uː ˈ ɡ ɑː w ə / TOHK-oo-GAH-wə; [17] Japanese: 徳川幕府, romanized: Tokugawa bakufu, IPA: [tokɯgawa, tokɯŋawa baꜜkɯ̥ɸɯ]), also known as the Edo shogunate (江戸幕府, Edo bakufu), was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

  7. Black Ships - Wikipedia

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    The Sakoku policy remained in effect until 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Perry and the "opening" of Japan. ... This page was last edited on 31 December 2024, ...

  8. Sengoku period - Wikipedia

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    The Sengoku period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai, lit. ' Warring States period ') is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.

  9. Tokugawa Iemitsu - Wikipedia

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    Over the course of the 1630s, Iemitsu issued a series of edicts restricting Japan's dealings with the outside world. The most famous of those edicts was the so-called Sakoku Edict of 1635, which contained the main restrictions introduced by Iemitsu. With it, he forbade every Japanese ship and person to travel to another country, or to return to ...