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Education in Japan: Past and Present - NIER
www.nier.go.jpkeeping the country closed to the outside world under the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), the country enjoyed a long period of peace and social stability. Under these conditions, the people of Japan were able to attain quite a high level of cultural maturity. There was a relatively wide diffusion of distinctively Japanese educational institutions.
Japanese English Education and Learning: A History of ...
files.eric.ed.gov1639 when the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Edo period gave the order to close the door to foreigners. After that, the Japanese took an interest in learning Dutch. It was studied throughout the entire Edo era, since Holland was the only Western country given permission to trade due to Japan’s adoption of a policy of seclusion from the outside world.
Tokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay
www.colorado.eduTokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay by Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado at Boulder Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal” rule.