The terms were dictated by the Americans, and the Japanese had little choice but to agree, seeing that they were seriously technologically outmatched. Perry returned a year later to sign the Convention of Kanagawa, a treaty that opened the Japanese ports of Shimoda (a city between Kyoto and what we now call Tokyo and was then called Edo) and Hakodate (located on the northern island of Hokkaido) to U.S. When this demand was not met, he shelled a few buildings in the harbor. President Millard Fillmore presented to the de facto ruler of Japan at the time, the shogun. He presented a counterdemand to have a letter from U.S. He ignored the directive and was surrounded by the Japanese fleet.

The Japanese told him to leave and go to Nagasaki. Perry of the United States Navy steamed into what we now call Tokyo Bay. Contact with the West was limited to trade with the Dutch in the city of Nagasaki-Westerners otherwise weren’t allowed in the country, and Western influences were strongly discouraged.

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