Japan, U.S. Military Involvement in
Japan, U.S. Military Involvement in.Initial U.S. military involvement with Japan occurred in 1853, when Comm. Matthew C. Perry led a naval expedition there. Perry sought to compel the ruling Tokugawa Shogun to open Japan to foreign commerce on American terms. In the face of superior technology, the Japanese acceded to Perry's demand in 1854. In the early twentieth century, despite disputes over immigration restriction and mistreatment of Japanese residents in the United States, the two Pacific nations became major trading partners and cooperated in creating a balance of power in the Asia‐Pacific region. The collapse of world trade after 1929, however, prompted Japanese militarists and nationalist politicians to abandon the framework of cooperation established with the West under the League of Nations (1919) and Washington Naval Arms Limitation Treaty (1922) and to seek...
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