How Did The Tokugawa Shogunate

During the Tokugawa Shogunate , foreign affairs and trade were monopolized by the shogunate, yielding a huge profit right into their pockets.To guard against external influences from not only China, they also worked to close off Japanese society from Westernizing influences, particularly Christianity. Isolationism was the foreign policy of Japan and trade was strictly controlled. This was an action taken by the Tokugawa shogunate because they were suspicious of foreign intervention and colonialism, and after reviewing and studying what happened to other groups that were inferior in military and technological aspects, such as the Zulu in Africa, the shogunate had decided to allow for some limited trade in Nagasaki, Kyoto, and Tokyo as to be