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of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.

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Fun Fact: of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.

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