First I will start with Japan and how they reacted to this new contact. Japan before these contacts really didn’t had a totally different type of military technology. They use firearms but they were nothing compare to what they were introduce to. As far a trades went Japan was very open to trade, but they did monitor it very closely. One thing that did happen to come on the merchant ships that Japan didn’t expect was missionaries. Even with Japan having very mixed feeling on this they allowed it for a long time. Many Japanese really like the new religions and it quick spread through the country. Soon enough Japan had enough with the new religion; they blame these for many problems and wanted it out of the country. Even with Japan wanting the missionaries out and most of them leaving some decided to go under ground and stay. With this movement to get rid of the new religion Japan also ordered the end to European trade. They did keep little trade with the Dutch but it was......
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