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All About Japan The Tokugawa shogunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.
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Commodore Matthew Perry An American fleet of four warships under Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay.
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U.S. consul Townsend Harris U.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty.
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Meiji Restoration The Sat-Cho alliance forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.
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Boshin War Armies attacked the shogun’s palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored.
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Mieji Constitution The Meiji constitution was modeled after that of Imperial Germany.
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Imperial Japan Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898.
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Russo-Japanese War Japan defeated Russia.
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Gentlemen's Agreement President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.
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Treaty of 1910 Japan annexed Korea outright.
