HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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The US sent Commodore Perry and 4 warships to force Japan to sign a trade treaty
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Great Britain sent Jonathan Livingstone as a missionary to Japan.
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The Shogun insisted that Japanese ports be opened for trade.
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Workers threatened to strike if international trade did not begin.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Perry, on behalf of the U.S. government, forced Japan to enter into trade with the United States and demanded a treaty permitting trade and the opening of Japanese ports to U.S. merchant ships.
Detailed explanation-2: -The arrival of US Commodore Matthew Perry’s squadron of four ships into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, is one of those great watershed moments of modern history. This event led to the rapid transformation of Japan from a weak isolated nation into one of the world’s major world powers in less than fifty years.
Detailed explanation-3: -On March 31, 1854, the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan and an unwavering policy by Japan’s government of forbidding commerce with foreign nations.
Detailed explanation-4: -“On March 31 1854 representatives of Japan and the United States signed a historic treaty. A United States naval officer, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, negotiated tirelessly for several months with Japanese officials to achieve the goal of opening the doors of trade with Japan.