Unit 3

From Isolation to Adaptation



Lesson 1

Why and how did Japan isolate itself from the rest of the world?

  • Dutch scholars
  • Exclusion or Isolation Laws
  • martyr
  • per capita

The isolation of Japan did not β€œjust happen”. The isolation was planned and carried out by the shoguns who followed Tokugawa Ieyasu.


Tokugawa Yoshinobu, The Last Shogun of Japan