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By 1800, Europeans had been in contact with China for more than two hundred years.
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Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
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the Chinese agreed to legalize the opium trade and open new ports to foreign trade.
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the Sat-Cho alliance (from Satsuma-Choshu) forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.
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1868Meiji Restoration begins
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Japanese musicians played Western music and wore West- ern clothing.
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Japan launched a sur- prise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898
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Sun Yat-sen issues reform program
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President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement”
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Japan annexes Korea
