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Japan By: Mason Bryan, Dakota Coogle, and Ryan Murphy.
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Transcript of Japan By: Mason Bryan, Dakota Coogle, and Ryan Murphy.
Location and History
• Japan consists of several thousands of islands, Japan's closest neighbors are Korea, Russia and China. The Sea of Japan separates the Asian continent from the Japanese archipelago.
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• The population of Japan is about 125,000,000, including approximately two million foreign residents.
• More than half of the non Japanese population is of Korean descent.
• Japans believed excessive contact with the West would destroy their culture.
• Americans wanted to expand towards Japan to benefit more for trade.
• In 1852, President Franklin Pierce decided to force Japan to trade with the United States.
• Commodore (Matthew C. Perry) took a naval ship to Japan and forced the Japanese to a trade treaty through Americas technology and firepower.
• Part of the country wanted to fight and part of the country didn’t• Some Americans thought this
wasn’t a big enough issue to enter war.
• After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. decides to enter the war in what we know as World War II (WWII) • The U.S. won
• The United States became Japans closest ally.
• Japan relies on the U.S. for its national security.
• Japan has deployed groups to help the U.S. in Iraq.• They are no longer rivals or
enemies to America to this day.
• I feel as if the U.S. shouldn’t of forced Japan to trade with us.
• In the long run though it was a good decision.