Open the country. Stop having it be closed.

Except for when they didn’t and had Dutch, Chinese and Korean enclaves and trade.

Supernova in the East tells the rest of the story.

Isolationism is stupid and I think less of anyone who thinks otherwise.

James Clavell’s Shogun is a great novel about the isolation of Japan.

Knock knock.

TIL North Korea: Nippon Edition existed before actual North Korea