March 31,1860 First Issue The B.A.D. Times

BAY AREA DAILY

The Arrival of the Embassy

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The Japanese and American Viewpoints

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During the 17th century the Togawa Shogunate took control of Japan. The Tokugawa family adapts the Close Door Policy. Japan closed all trades with other country, but still traded with the Dutch and China. The Toku-gawa family ruled over 200 years. The closed door policy allowed Japan to become self-sufficient and depend on the countries resources. The country adapted the policy because they might

have thought that having an open door policy would affect their system of culture. If the country had a closed door policy, than it would not be able to have detail on the outside world obey his order. He then made a “Gun boat Diplomacy”, which was the use or threatened use of limited military force in place of conventional diplomatic negotiations. This was meant to

stop the Close Door Policy and Westernize Japan. This ended with the “Kanagawa Treaty” which was an agreement forced on the Tokugawa Shogunate by Commodore Perry's menacing "black ships," end-ing over two centuries of closed foreign traders from the coast of Japan.

The First Japanese Embassy arrived at the year 1860. The Kanrin Maru was consisted of diplo-mats from Japan. They went there to learn about the western ways. By learning the modernized ways, Japan would be able to compete with countries with the same balanced political power. They would have a better advantage to become a country of better efficiency.

The Arrival of the Embassy BY: NICOLE AGCAOILI

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Editor: Leo Tin Ads by: Michal B. Articles by: Vanessa Wong and Nicole Agcaoili

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Japanese descendent, Okita Shizu-miya of the Edo period proclaims the mu-tual change of ending the closed door pol-icy. He insults Matthew C. Perry of a man who inappropriately intruded his home land with “black ships with dangerous killing machines that spit black sooty rocks [cannons]”. Okita’s argument: “Matthew rudely demanded trade and was soon followed by British westerners who supported him. Some years later and after a show of intricate force in 1864, the To-kugawa Shogunate was losing the support of the daimyo. They were unhappy about the foreign intrusions and wanted to expel all foreigners by force. The Shogunate surrendered power to the emperor Meiji in 1867 and rebellions were eliminated. The foreigners only want one thing,

The Japanese and Ameri-can Viewpoints BY: VANESSA WONG

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Local Japanese citizen Yusuke Kimidori, thinks it is an advantage to create a modern-ized and industrialized country in time it had taken the countries of the West to develop into a more centralized government. “Western styles were more adopted and traditional ones were often abandoned. The military and indus-trial bases were considerably strengthened. So-cial norms were changed in style. With the bal-ance of power, Japan would be able to com-pete with more advanced countries to strengthen themselves”. Yusuke Kimidori be-lieves an open door policy will make Japan in-vincible.

English patriot, Andreas, believed Commo-dore Perry broke down barriers that separated Japan from the rest of the world. “The Ameri-cans admired the courtesy and politeness of their hosts and thought very highly of the rich Japanese culture. Matthew had created peace and friendship between the United States and Japan. He offered help for any American ships wrecked on the Japanese coast and protection for shipwrecked people”. The Americans would be the first to negotiate and trade at the door of Japan. Andreas believed this move-ment would help Japan become more modern-ized in military, economic, and political. Both of the countries would be able to share their culture and history. Each step to sharing would lead to a leap to cultural blending.

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