Alien ships of fire: would the Shogun allow Americans into Japan? His decision would shape the future of two world powers.

From: Junior Scholastic | Date: March 27, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

* OBJECTIVE

Students should understand

* that after centuries of isolation, Japan was opened to the West in 1854, due in large part to the efforts of Matthew C. Perry.

* BACKGROUND

Japan's first Shogun was Tokugawa Ieyasu, who, in 1603, used military might to put himself in power. He made Edo (now Tokyo) the capital of his shogunate, and ensured that power would pass from father to son. In 1638, the strict law of sakoku ("closed country") was established to keep outside influences, such as European missionaries and traders, from weakening the Shogun's hold on ...

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