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Japan's Opening
Japan’s Opening

Japanese government Tokugawa shogunate stickled to Japanese government Tokugawa shogunate adhered to closed Japan policy, which meant that Japan refused to accept foreign civilization. However, Japan's closed situation was changed when Perry first visited Japan in 1853. Perry brought many benefits and some confusion to Japan.
Japan had interest in the western countries; the reason might come from China "opening" in the early of nineteen century. On the other side, western countries had strong interest in doing business with Japan to make profit. Based on the interest between Japan and western countries, there was existing of black ships. From the black ships & samurai, there was a black ship on the picture, which might be
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After that, Tokugawa shogunate began to signed contract with Britain, the Netherlands and Russia. The advantages were promoting Japan's economics development and reforming the political and social system; however, Japan's opening also hurt the feudal structure of Japan, which led the Tokugawa shogunate to collapse. To be more specific, Boomtown in Yokohama was another example to end the Japan’s closed.
From the picture Yokohama Boomtown, there were two foreigners in Tready- Port Japan in 1895. Before that date, the leaders of Japan samurai had a policy, which is likely closing the door of Japan to avoid other civilizations to enter Japan, Japan prohibited any foreigners to enter, religion was also prohibited, for example, Christianity. However, that closed situation was changed from United State's pressure.
Japan's opening was requested by Perry who was stand for Americans, since Perry wanted to trade with Japanese. After that, Perry brought two warships and other weapons in order to force Bakufu accepting his trade request; Perry said that if Bakufu did not open ports to trade with Americans, he would use force. Yokohama was one of the ports to be forced to open. Foreigners could use multiple languages to communicate with Japanese. However, the multiple languages in Yokohama made much confusion as well. Before Perry's visited, Japanese was only familiar with Dutch, Perry used Dutch to translate his language to

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