Japan Today

Commodore Perry’s black ships deliver a letter to Japan in July 1853

It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two ...
The New York Times

70 YEARS SINCE PERRY JAPAN OVER; Anniversary Recalls Commodore's Picturesque Diplomacy -- Shrewdness and Humor Shown in His Shower of Gifts

THE relations between the United States and Japan, which are viewed with some apprehension because of the exclusion provision of the immigration bill, had their beginning just seventy years ago when ...
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Artifacts of diplomacy : Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) / Chang-su Houchins

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) not only began a tradition of “gunboat diplomacy” so often associated with mid-nineteenth century American expansionism, it also ...
The New York Times

COMMODORE PERRY'S WAY OF OPENING THE DOOR; With Warships Bearing Gifts the American Officer Persuaded Japan to End Her Isolation

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