THE OPENING OF JAPAN TO THE WEST and why it is important to you in 5 minutes

Continuing our look at the influence of Japan on the course of world history, this week we look at how the West opened Japan up to international trade and how that decision altered the course of the twentieth and twenty first century.

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[jamesmiller]

Read "Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft" by Lindsay Anderson (free on Google) for a description of an 1858 trade expedition to Japan by an Opium Clipper.

[Kng-jxjw]

i was just wonder if you know any one named candis