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Tokugawa shotunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.
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Commodore Perry arrived in Japan An american fleet of four warships under Commodore.
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U.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty. And it called for several new ports to U.S trade and residence.
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Sat-Cho alliance forced the shotgun to promise to end relations with the West.
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Janurary of 1868, their armies attacked the shogun's palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored.
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The country was divided into 75 prefectures. " The number was reduced to 45 in 1889 " and it remains that number today.
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Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1998.
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After their defeat, the Russians agreed to a humiliating peace in 1905
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President Thodore Roosevelt made a "gentleman agreement" with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.
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Japan annexed Korea outright. And mutal suspicion between the two countries was growing.
