Japan remained sealed from foreign influence from 1635 until 1853, when
a) Commodore Perry sailed into Edo Bay with four American warships.
b) the priest Francis Xavier landed at Kagoshima.
c) Portuguese traders arrived, bringing gunpowder and firearms.
d) the Chinese arrived and took over a quarter of Nagasaki.
Answer: a
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