Japan and the US

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How the US expand to Japan and consequences
VALERIA FERNANDEZ PADILLA
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Britain and U.S.A were interested in extending with Japan. What did the U.S.A. do? +Gun-Boat diplomacy -July 8, 1853 -Commodore Mathew Perry arrived with 4 warships -The U.S.A requested commercial agreement, returning in 1 year for the answer
Did Japan accepted? -Japan's political leaders and the emperor's court favoured the resistance. -Tokugawa shogunate was aware of China's humiliation in the Opium War -Japan agreed to the Treaty of Kanagawa in March 1854 -It opened 2 Japan's port.
What were the consequences? -Granted the US position of "most favoured nation" -Japan's policy of seclusion end after 200 years -A turning point in Japan's history because it led to Japan to be an important international and regional power
How treaties worked? -In 1858, Japan signed the "Treaty of Amity and Commerce" with the US -japan was pressured to sign similar treaties with other Western nations.
What were Unequal treaties? -Granted extra-territorial rights to citizens of the other countries signing the treaties -Were popular in Asian countries, with China in particularly -Nationalist resentment
Sato Nobuhiro "Kondo Hisaku (A Secret Strategy for Expansionism)" -Written in 1823 -Making the world "provinces and districts" of Japan -First conquest of Manchuria, China -The ideology of military aggression shaped in a feudal society -Linked to an attack to Korea
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