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wtg
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This week's long read.

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For two centuries, an extreme protectionist policy barred all foreigners from setting foot inside Japan…except for on one tiny island, a cramped cultural crossroads where anything could, and did, happen.


https://narratively.com/the-wi...ns-isolationist-era/


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A fun little romp through three hundred years!
 
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Indeed.

Thanks for posting that.


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Great article and a good coffee read.


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