Zusammenfassung der Ressource
JAPAN AND THE US
- Western power also interested in extend its interest to Japan
- USA
- USA attempts
- 1837 and 1846
- They were beaten off by the Japanese ships
- 8 July 1853
- Commodore Perry arrived with 4 warships
- Japan's political leaders
- Favoured national resistance
- Tokugawa shogunate
- Aware of China's humiliation in the Opium War
- 1839-42
- Treaty of Kanagawa
- March 1854
- Opened up two of Japan's ports to US trade
- Japan's policy of seclusion
- Had lasted for over 200 years
- Treaty of Amity and Commerce
- 1858
- Japan-US