The agreement Perry eventually reached with the Japanese, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty, effectively ended more than two centuries of Japan’s isolationist policy and opened Shimoda and ...

March 31 Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity signed. April 14 Fleet moves to Shimoda. June 2 Fleet moves from Shimoda to Naha. July 17 Fleet’s last vessel departs Naha for Hong Kong. When the ...

In the eighteenth century, Russia had begun southward expansion to secure warm-water ports, and in the last years of the shogunate, it forced Japan to open up to trade—the Treaty of Shimoda ...

This opening led to the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa between the US and Japan, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan.

SHIMODA CITY, Japan— More than 600 U.S. military ... Perry’s move forced the isolated Japan to sign the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity in 1854, opening the country to trade and ...

“In 1958, Shimoda built the sister city relationship ... Perry in opening Japan to the world in 1854, when the Kanagawa Treaty was signed. Four years later, trading and diplomatic relations ...

The terms of the treaty marked the end of Japan's 500 years of self-imposed isolation by opening of the Ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Four years later, Japanese-American relations were further ...