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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868 - Wikipedia

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    Robert Janson (1704, Ireland), a native of Waterford seized off the coast of Kyushu and brought to Dejima Island. [16]Martin Spanberg (Russia, born in Denmark) visited the island of Honshu in 1738, being in command of the first Russian naval squadron specifically sent to seek for a diplomatic encounter with the Japanese.

  6. Tokugawa shogunate - Wikipedia

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    The Tokugawa shogunate, [a] also known as the Edo shogunate, [b] was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. [18] [19] [20]The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars of the Sengoku period following the collapse of the Ashikaga shogunate.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Rolexes and records: Saquon Barkley's impact on Eagles goes ...

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    In this case, success meant the ninth 2,000-yard rushing season in NFL history. With 30 more Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, Barkley will eclipse Hall of Famer Terrell Davis’ 26-year-old ...

  9. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, territorial and cultural changes and political events in Japan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Japan .