For over 200 years, Japan had a strict isolationist policy where natives were not allowed to leave and foreigners were not allowed to enter. The one exception was Dejima; an artificial island off the coast of Nagasaki, built to allow traders from a select few nations to do limited business with the mainland. But why was this in place, and what was the legacy of Dejima?

AJ tells Matt all about the period's politics and the hosts discuss what it's like to live in an island nation that cuts off its access to the rest of the world to its own detriment...

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