about the foreign intru-sions and wanted to ex-pel all foreigners by force. The Shogunate surrendered power to the emperor Meiji in 1867 and rebellions were eliminated. The foreigners only want one thing, to steal knowledge from an-other country to power and balance their own. Thief”! Okita Shizu-miya is in the favor of a closed door policy based on the informa-tion he gave to the Bay Area Daily.

Japanese descen-dent, Okita Shizumiya of the Edo period pro-claims the mutual change of ending the closed door policy. He insults Matthew C. Perry of a man who in-appropriately intruded his home land with “black ships with dan-gerous killing machines that spit black sooty rocks [cannons]”. Okita’s arguement: “Matthew rudely de-manded trade and was soon followed by Brit-ish westerners who sup-ported him. Some years later and after a show of

intricate force in 1864, the Tokugawa Sho-gunate was losing the support of the daimyo. They were unhappy

Local Japanese citi-zen Yusuke Kimidori-sama, thinks it is an ad-vantage to create a mod-ernized and industrialized country in time it had taken the countries of the West to develop into a more centralized govern-

ment. “Western styles were more adopted and traditional ones were of-ten abandoned. The mili-tary and industrial bases were considerably strengthened. Social norms were changed in style. With the balance of

power, Japan would be able to compete with more advanced countries to strengthen themselves”. Yusuke Kimidori believes an open door policy will make Japan invincible.

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English patriot, An-dreas, believed Commo-dore Perry broke down barriers that separated Japan from the rest of the world. “The Americans admired the courtesy and politeness of their hosts and thought very highly of the rich Japanese cul-ture. Matthew had cre-ated peace and friendship

between the United States and Japan. He of-fered help for any American ships wrecked on the Japanese coast and protection for ship-wrecked people”. The Americans would be the first to negotiate and trade at the door of Ja-pan. Andreas believed this movement would

help Japan become more modernized in military, economic, and political. Both of the countries would be able to share their culture and history. Each step to sharing would lead to a leap to cultural blending.

image was mainly a force-ful threat to make Japan obey his order. He then made a “Gun boat Diplo-macy”, which was the use or threatened use of limited military force in place of conventional diplomatic negotiations. This was meant to stop the Close

In March 13th 1853, President Fillmore sent gifts to Japan. These included muskets, pistols, swords, cartridges, and other things that could westernize Japan. After one year, Commodore Mathew C. Perry went to Japan with four “Black Ships”. His

Door Policy and Westernize Japan. This ended with the “Kanagawa Treaty” which was an agreement forced on the Tokugawa Shogunate by Commodore Perry's menacing "black ships," ending over two centuries of closed foreign traders from the coast of Japan.

Tokugawa family ruled over 200 years. The closed door policy al-lowed Japan to become self-sufficient and de-pend on the countries resources. The country adapted the policy be-cause the Japanese might have thought that

having an open door policy would affect their system of culture. If the country had a closed door policy, than it would not be able to have detail on the outside world.

During the 17th century the Tokugawa Shogunate took control of Japan. The Toku-gawa family adapts the Close Door Policy. Ja-pan closed all trades with other country, but still traded with the Dutch and China. The

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would be able to com-pete with countries with the same balanced po-litical power. They would have a better ad-vantage to become a country of better effi-ciency.

The First Japa-nese Embassy arrived at the year 1860. The Kan-rin Maru was consisted of diplomats from Ja-pan. They went there to learn about the western ways. By learning the modernized ways, Japan

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