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| | March | YAMAHA MOTOR |
 | | In addition to silk, the boats purchased luxury items such as pigments for dye, deerskin, ivory and sugar, which could be sold at high prices. |
 | | Some people began their own venture-type businesses, based on close links with local producers, such as Nagamasa Yamada, and if things had carried on in the same way, Japan today may have been a much more cosmopolitan nation. |
 | | The Edo Shogunate, however, shortly after taking rule, decided it did not approve of regional Daimyo growing economically stronger as a result of overseas trading, and feeling the threat of European expansion, with the accompanying power of Christianity, the government closed the country completely. |
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