Closing Countries Of China And Japan (Year 1633 To 1639)

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14 April 2017
Closing Countries of Japan and China
Between the year 1633 to 1639, there was a closure of Tokugawa which did not allow the majority of the trading activities to happen among them and other countries. The only trading they retained was with the Netherlands, China, and Korea. The shogunate was threatened mainly by the warships in 1853 when Commodore Perry allowed for this to happen.
Due to the threats that happened, the only ships with special permission were allowed to enter, and the Japanese were not allowed to leave Japan for at least 5 years. In 1634, they held on to this information and outside countries believed this. It was only in 1635 when the ships were given permission to enter Nagasaki, but the Netherlands and Chinese ships were still forbidden. The Japanese who left their country was not allowed to go back and the Portugese who were not traders had to leave Japan 1636. Three years after that, Portugese ships were totally prevented from entering Japan.
This continued for a century and in 1792, Qianlong responded to the message of George III because he did not want any English people to stay in Tianchao. The reason he gave is that they are rude because China requires people to kneel down and kowtow if they want to meet the majesty. The English people do not want to comply to that and he found this very rude. Qianlong asked them if they want their people to be taught about politeness and the letter was translater from Chinese to Latin, but it was revised. Qianlong’s statement about not liking the English had to be omitted before giving the letter to George III. The letter is a little biased because Qianlong idealizes that China is the best country and possess everything. Qianlong believes that other countries are still uncivilized, which does not have any truth to it. Moreover, during the time when the army forces of Britain were...