The Sakoku Edicts and the Exclusion of Christianity in Japan
In the annals of Japanese history, few periods evoke as stark an image of isolation and spiritual upheaval as the era of Sakoku, roughly translated as “chained country” or “closed country.” For over two centuries, from the 1630s until the mid-19th century, Japan, under the stringent rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, turned its back on … Read more