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1543
First interaction
While on a trading trip around asia. one ship goes off course and makes landfall on an island off the coast of Japan. -
1544
Guns
The Japanese learn how to make firearms and begin to improve on the western design. -
1549
Missionaries arrive
The main missionary was francis xavier further spreading christianity around the world. -
Hideyoshi kills 26 christians
26 christians 17 of them converts had their left ear chopped off later being killed. -
Hideyoshi dies
On his deathbed, Hideyoshi asked Ieyasu to serve as one of five regents designated to rule Japan until Hideyoshi's beloved son, Hideyori, came of age. -
William adams arrives in Japan
Japan's first visitor from England, William Adams was a pilot on the Liefde, a Dutch vessel that shipwrecked off southern Japan. The only one of 24 survivors coherent enough to greet the Japanese boarding party, Adams was taken to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the country's strongest daimyo. Luckily for Adams, Ieyasu was interested in his knowledge of shipbuilding and navigation, and Adams became the daimyo's trusted interpreter and commercial agent. -
Christianity is outlawed in Japan
With the change of shogun the religion is outlawed and all Christians that refused to reconvert were killed -
nglebert Kaempfer Arrives in Japan
Sent by the Dutch East India Company to provide medical care on Dejima Island, German-born Englebert Kaempfer (1651 1716) spent two years in Japan, much of it gathering information about the isolated kingdom. -
Tokugawa Ienobu Becomes 6th Shogun
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Tokugawa shogunate
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Tokugawa Ietsugu Becomes 7th Shogun
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Tokugawa Yoshimune Becomes 8th Shogun
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Japan Refuses Trade with Russian Ships
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Shogunate Cracks Down on Western Scholarship
The renewal of anti-western policies was partially motivated by the arrival of the American ship Morrison, also coupled with continued attempts by Russian, European and American ships to enter Japan. -
Commodore Perry Demands Japan Open to Trade
American Commodore Matthew Perry led an expedition to open diplomatic and commercial relations between Japan and the United States.
