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Over one hundred and fifty years ago, Matthew Perry, an American commodore, was deemed by the American President to establish ties with ‘the barbarian land' of Japan. Given the time, the Japanese were thought as the "least interesting people in the world," yet this sparked a curiosity in Perry which prompted him to action.
The motivation behind the Japanese isolationistic policies lied mainly with the military threats of Western countries and the invasive influence of Western people who brought with them the Christian religion. The island of Japan had been closed to the outside world for nearly 250 years; fear playing a large part in non-interaction with Japan. After the Japanese government closed the nation in 1639, many powers attempted to establish an open relationship with Japan. During this time, nations such as England, France, Holland, Spain and Portugal successfully dominated many Asian countries from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. The Japanese had great insight......

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