Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay

On behalf of the US government, Brigadier General Matthew Calbrace Perry departed to Tokyo Bay in Japan with four squadrons. For a while, Japanese officials refused to talk to Perry, but under the threat of high level US ship attacks, they put the United States into the first Western country to establish a relationship with Japan did. Because it announced the closure of foreigners two centuries ago. Only the Netherlands and Chinese were permitted to continue trade with Japan since 1639, but this trade was restricted to the island of Nagasaki island.

After giving Japan time to consider establishing external relations, Perry will return to Tokyo in September 1854 with 9 ships. On March 31, he signed the "Kanagawa Treaty" with the Japanese government, opened the US trade port of Shimoda and Hakodate, and made it possible to establish a US Consulate in Japan. In April 1860, the first Japanese diplomat who visited a diplomatic power over 200 years arrived in Washington DC and spent several weeks in the capital of the United States to discuss trade expansion with the United States. Shortly thereafter, treaties with other Western countries closely followed, leading to the collapse of the shogunate, which eventually led to modernization of Japan.

More than 70 warriors visited America in 1860, six years after Gen. Perry departed Tokyo Bay. They are the first group who officially left Japan for over 200 years. They were sent to President James Buchanan to submit a friendly and commercial treaty and ordered to avoid friendly exchange with their American hosts. "But I wrote on the New York Times that old and aggressive American hospitality took over.I have a parade and a party.Walt Whitman also wrote a poem printed on the New York Times.This page [ Sources: Martha Schwendener's "The New York Times" August 26, 2010

On behalf of the US government, Brigadier General Matthew Calbrace Perry departed to Tokyo Bay in Japan with four squadrons. For a while, Japanese officials refused to talk to Perry, but under the threat of high level US ship attacks, they put the United States into the first Western country to establish a relationship with Japan did. Because it announced the closure of foreigners two centuries ago. Only the Netherlands and Chinese were permitted to continue trade with Japan since 1639, but this trade was restricted to the island of Nagasaki island.

In the United States, since at least 1853 British navy brigadier general Matthew Perry has driven a fleet in Tokyo Bay and threatened the development of foreign trade in Japan, he has conducted gunboat diplomacy in Asia. But now the Chinese are shaping the Asian version of Monroe to promote their empire ambitions. For Obama, the roots in Hawaii and Indonesia gave him a strong Pacific view of the world Iraq and Afghanistan drawdown gave him a good excuse to point his eyes to the east. The United States has been working on strengthening relations with former allies of Asia such as Japan and Korea and emerging giants such as India. Government officials are reluctant to express it publicly, but the goal is to join an alliance to offset China's growing power.