World History Moment: Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate
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World History Moment: Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate
By Worldview
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America discovered Japan’s feudal past from watching the 1980 television miniseries Shogun. For today’s World History Moment, historian John Schmidt takes us back to March 24, 1603, when Japan formed the Tokugawa Shogunate.