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400 – Japanese Whispers: Mapping the Forbidden Outside World « Strange Maps

by karlcow & 1 other

For two centuries after 1640, the official Japanese policy towards the outside world was known as sakoku (’closed country’), by which both Japanese leaving the country and foreigners entering it could expect the death penalty.

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the 23/07/2009 at 10:17