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Where does “sakoku” come from?

sakoku (English) comes from Japanese 鎖国 — national isolation, closure of a country to...

sakoku (English): The foreign policy of Japan between the 1630s and...

Definitions

  1. The foreign policy of Japan between the 1630s and...

Ancestry of “sakoku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鎖国national isolation, closure of a country to...
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