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Rangaku



Rangaku (Japanese: 蘭学, literally "Dutch Learning", and by extension "Western learning") is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through her contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed her to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners, 1641–1853, because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation (sakoku).



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