A gaudy storefront in Yokohama Chinatown, in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu island, Japan.

A gaudy storefront in Yokohama Chinatown, in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu island, Japan. Sakoku ("chained country") describes the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate, under which during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited. After Yokohama became one of the first Japanese ports to be opened to foreign trade in 1859, Yokohama Chinatown grew quickly into Japan's biggest Chinatown. Yokohama City grew to become Japan's second largest city (now over three million people). Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located 30 minutes south of Tokyo by train.

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A gaudy storefront in Yokohama Chinatown, in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu island, Japan. Sakoku ("chained country") describes the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate, under which during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited. After Yokohama became one of the first Japanese ports to be opened to foreign trade in 1859, Yokohama Chinatown grew quickly into Japan's biggest Chinatown. Yokohama City grew to become Japan's second largest city (now over three million people). Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located 30 minutes south of Tokyo by train.