After some excursions into history, we will directly move on to a rather ambiguous event – the arrival of the black ships followed by the signing of Kaganawa Treaty.
To prove the argument, it is necessary to start with the general political and economic environment which took place in those days.
However, the opening of Japan to the world has hugely influenced both local and global balance. In this paper, we claim that these events have drastically changed the subsequent history of the country, forcing it to introduce transformations in the political, economic, and military sphere it never thought it would tolerate.
Led by Commodore Perry, “the Black Ships” were to become a significant factor in the negotiations and the subsequent signing of the agreement on trade between Japan and the United States, thus effectively ending Japan’s more than two hundred years long self-isolation policy. The fleet of warships, later called “black” by the astonished Japanese due to the color of coal smoke used by the US steam navy, first entered Uraga Harbor near Edo (early Tokyo) on July 8, 1853.
