1855 newspaper JAPAN OPENED to US COMMERCE by The US Navy led by MATTHEW PERRY for Sale

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1855 newspaper JAPAN OPENED to US COMMERCE by The US Navy led by MATTHEW PERRY For Sale

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1855 newspaper JAPAN OPENED to US COMMERCE by The US Navy led by MATTHEW PERRY:
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1855 newspaper JAPAN is OPENED to US COMMERCE by The US Navy led by COMMODORE MATTHEW PERRY -inv #5A-313

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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,thePortland Transcript (MAINE) datedOct 27, 1855.This newspaper contains a prominent inside page headline: \"IS JAPAN OPENED TO COMMERCE\" with a full column detailed report on the OPENING of JAPAN by the US Navy expedition led by Commodore MATTHEW PERRY.

This marks the beginning of the OPENING OF JAPAN to commerce with the West on a large basis.

The Perry Expedition was a diplomatic and military expedition to Bakumatsu period Japan, involving two separate trips by warships of the United States Navy, which took place during 1853–54. The goals of this expedition included exploration, surveying, and the establishment of diplomatic relations and negotiation of trade agreements with various nations of the region; opening contact with the government of Japan was considered a top priority of the expedition, and was one of the key reasons for its inception. The expedition was commanded by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, under orders from American President Millard Fillmore. Perry’s primary goal was to force an end to Japan’s 220-year-old policy of isolation and to open Japanese ports to American trade, through the use of gunboat diplomacy if necessary. The Perry Expedition led directly to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the western \"Great Powers\", and eventually to the collapse of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration. Following the expedition, Japan\'s burgeoning trade routes with the world led to the cultural trend of Japonism, in which aspects of Japanese culture influenced art in Europe and America.

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