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* Pierce sends Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan to force to open to US trade | |||
** never having seen a steamship before, the Japanese acquiesce (gave in) to American demands | |||
** Japan agrees to open two ports to American trade (previously limited to the Chinese and the Dutch) | |||
** Japan decides to adopt Western technologies and embarks on industrialization that leads to imperial expansion in the 1900s | |||
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* >>details | * >>details | ||