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TIL that from 1603 to 1867, Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate enacted a policy called Sakoku that isolated the country from foreign trade and contact. Only Dutch, Chinese, and Korean traders were allowed to trade in Nagasaki under strict regulations and were strictly observed during their stay.

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