The US sent Adm. Matthew C. Perry to Japan in 1852 with a demand for a Japanese trade treaty. Upon arrival in Uraga Harbor near Tokyo he was denied entry to the main port by Tokugawa Shogunate authorities and was ordered to Nagasaki where he was told to limit trade to dealing with the Dutch.
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
Japan had little in the way of natural resources and felt it need to expand militarily, rather than by trade, to get them. America opposed Japan's expansion, particularly its aggression against China.
They invaded China.
America cut all trade to and from Japan.