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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of Japanese isolationism. The argument is made that the sakoku mentality persists in modern Japanese culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Perpetuation of Sakoku: Isolationism in Japan , 2/2011
--properly! Many Asian civilizations, in their early periods of cultural and civil development, engaged in practices of national isolation. There were
many justifications given for such practices, but all such forms of isolation shared one commonality: they all contributed to the near-complete negation of international influence in the development of local
cultures. Consequently, this has led many such countries to adopt an exclusionary mentality that extends into the modern day. It has often been argued that this was the case for
Japan, which famous practiced outright isolation, enforced by military might, for more than 200 years, and which also invoked exceptionalism as a justification for military aggression during the Second World
War. The governmental policy of isolating the country of Japan was referred to as "sakoku", and, despite sakoku officially ending more than one hundred years ago, there seems to be
evidence to suggest that the impact of the sakoku mentality is still evident in many cultural aspects of modern Japanese life. This paragraph helps the student give a basic summary
of sakoku policies in Japan. Much of Japans early history was one of tribal warfare that later evolved into a system of ongoing feudal warfare, wherein power was politically represented
by land ownership, and landed lords called "shoguns" did battle with others in order to expand their own holdings and, ostensibly, to politically unify the country - this period is
often referred to as the "Warring States" period.1 In the 1600s, however, a particularly powerful shogunate, the Tokugawa shogunate, established military dominance and succeeded in unifying the country for a
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