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Except for when they didn’t and had Dutch, Chinese and Korean enclaves and trade.
James Clavell’s Shogun is a great novel about the isolation of Japan.

Knock knock.
It’s the United States.
We have boats with guns
(Gunboats)
Let’s trade… Or else.
Open the country. Stop having it be closed.
TIL North Korea: Nippon Edition existed before actual North Korea
Supernova in the East tells the rest of the story.






