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Under the Tokugawa shogunate's sakoku policy, which Europeans were permitted to trade with Japan?
The Dutch East India Company's Deshima post was Europe's single window on Japan for two centuries; 'Dutch learning' carried Western science in through it.
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The Tokugawa Shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868) ruled Japan from Edo after Ieyasu's victory at Sekigahara, imposing two and a half centuries of enforced peace, social hierarchy, and near-closure to the outside world (sakoku). It ended when Perry's black ships forced the country open and the Meiji Restoration returned power to the emperor.
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