`meijirestoration` Related Article Results

The Perry Expedition (Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan) was a diplomatic and military mission conducted by a U.S. naval fleet under the command of American Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853–1854. This expedition ended Japan’s policy of isolation maintained throughout the Edo Period and initiated its process of modernization. Background: Japan’s Isolation (Sakoku) and the United States Since 1639, Japan had been under the sakoku (closed country) policy enforced by the Tokugawa Shogunate, wh