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Japan's Isolation Policy and Contact with the Outside World

Understand sakoku as a policy of strict external restriction with limited controlled contact, not absolute isolation.

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Restricted, not sealed off

Sakoku was Japan's Tokugawa-era isolation policy. It severely restricted foreign trade, travel and contact, but it did not mean Japan had no foreign contact at all.