Hi Today on channel 1739 we will be discussing the Western influence on Ancient Japan. In the 16th century japan had some contact with the Europeans such as the Portuguese, Dutch, English and the Spanish for trading opportunities. Japanese leader welcomed them at first but became wary because Europe had conquered many other places and cities in the world Japan were afraid that Europeans would conquer and take over their country as well.
This fear caused the shogun to put all foreigners on higher restrictions and over time Japan became so threated they forced all foreigners leave Japan and didn’t let them into any main areas of Japan only the trading posts. This was soon called Sakoku or as it is more commonly known the policy