The Treaty of _________between Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate in 1854 was Japan’s first with an outside power and ushered the nation into the “treaty port” era with the opening of ports such as Yokohama and Nagasaki, thereby ending Japan’s policy of seclusion.
a. Augin
b. Tientsin
c. Fujikawa
d. Kanagawa
d. Kanagawa
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