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What led to Japan’s isolation

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The Tokugawa shared Hideyoshi's suspicions that Christian missionary work could be a pretext for a future invasion of Japan by one of the European powers. In 1635, shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu decided that the only way to ensure Japan's stability and independence was to cut off almost all contact with other nations.

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