Week 5

Seminar: Japan in Turmoil

• READ:  Chapter 19 – Japan in Turmoil to answer DQ #4
• READ: Black Ships and Samurai to answer DQ #4.
• DQ #4 is Due

• (No summary) Just Watch – American Perspective on ‘First Contact’ With Japan (1853).  https://youtu.be/Mq1A7lBaS_c
• Summary #6: Letters from U.S. President Millard Fillmore and U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry to the Emperor of Japan (1852 – 1853) is Due.

DQ #4

Why did the United States government send Commodore Perry to Japan? What was Japan like when Perry arrived? What other countries made treaties with Japan at this time? What were some of the terms of the treaties? What were some of the problems caused by the foreign trade resulting from the treaties?

Opening up Japan