United States, one of the main powers of the West began to have great interest in Japan. In 1837 and 1846 the United States made the first strategy to ensure the realization of trade with Japan, but Japan responded to the United States by sending a "gun-boat diplomacy".

Some Japanese leaders and the Emperor's court were favored by the national resistance, the Tokugawa shogunate was annoyed by the humiliation towards China in the Opium war and realizing that great humiliation accepted the Kanagawa Treaty in March 1854, where it accepted the United States and Japan's trade and was a major exporter of the United States.

In 1858, the Japanese government signed a treaty of friendship and trade with the United States, notwithstanding this not the taste for the imperial court that was dominated by the nationalists and advocated "repelling the barbarians."

	Criado por Mariela Mozo José quase 7 anos atrás

Japon in 1900`s

The causes of the expansion of Japan