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  • 11 - Matthew Perry in Japan, 1852–1854

  • from Part III - Contact: East and West
  • Edited by Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego, David C. Kang, University of Southern California
  • Book:
    East Asia in the World
    Published online:
    08 October 2020
    Print publication:
    29 October 2020, pp 188-205

  • Summary

    Matthew Perry’s arrival in Japan would have profound consequences for Japanese and world history. Ultimately it would impress Japanese officials on the need to reorient their nation’s geography to modern advantage. At the time of Perry’s arrival, for nearly two centuries Japanese leaders had attempted to isolate Japanese from the rest of the world, using the country’s island nature to keep the outside world at bay and Japanese at home. Important exceptions notwithstanding: Japanese were allowed to leave Japan; return meant their execution.