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Japan was tough on immigration with a policy called "sakoku". No one was allowed in or out upon pain of death but there were exceptions. The bakufu really liked trade monopolies and no small part of the sakoku policy can be explained this way. Trade with Korea and China continued and the Dutch were allowed to trade in Nagasaki via a small artificial Island called Dejima. Each year the Dutch were asked to report to bakufu on the affairs around the world. One of those things was the French Revolution. Needless to say, Japanese Peasants did not get told about 'egalitaire, fraternity and liberty'. One could argue (I would)  that the average Japanese person (assuming that average is a peasant) wasn't to be properly exposed to those concepts until 1945.

Here is a pic of the policy document of sakoku