A timeline of the rocky relations between Japan and Russia, dating to the 19th century: — 1855: Japan and Russia sign the Treaty of Shimoda, starting diplomatic relations. — 1905: Japan ...

After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic ...

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 ...

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 ...

This led to the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 and later the Treaty of Shimoda, which granted the U.S. access to Japanese ports and set the stage for Japan’s modernization. Perry’s arrival not ...

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 ...

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 ...