The story
- Japanese · borrowed from鎖国
- English todaysakoku
Borrowed from Japanese 鎖国, literally "closed country".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sakoku
Today it means: The isolationist foreign policy of Japan between the 1630s and 1866, in which entry to and exit from Japan were severely restricted. Full definition →
Japanese 鎖国