Seventeeth Century: Japan bans foreign books and isolates itself from the rest of the world.
Today: Japan is an economic world power, and Tokyo is a cosmopolitan city.
Seventeeth Century: Tokugawa Ieyasu is the most powerful man in Japan and in 1603 is appointed Shogun by the emperor. He establishes his military government in Edo (Tokyo), and Tokugawa shoguns rule Japan for more than 250 years.
Today: Japan has a representative democracy, but its government.....
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