Convention Of Kanagawa Essay

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Signed into action in 1854, the Convention of Kanagawa was the start of a long and tumultious relationship between the United States of America and Japan. Beginning with the forced signing of the treaty, America’s early involvement in Japan was anything but convivial, but it did open the door for interactions between the two nations, that had not previously been possible. This relationship was truly the beginning of American foreing policy in the Pacific, and with it began a long timeline of political development between various nations and the United States.
Close involvment of American with Hawaii started off in a similarly volatile manner as Hawaii, with the coup d’etat instigated by several American citizens and supported by American marines statnioned near the islands. However despite this episode of crisis, the previous relations between the two nations, and the subsequent annexing of the Kingdom of Hawaii into the United States of America was done in a moderatly amicable mannor. The annexing itself was commensed autonomous consent of the Republic of Hawaii, a far cry from the forced signing of the Convention of Kanagawa. …show more content…

In Japan the first introductions were themselves a show of force, as Commador Perry arived in a fleet of black warships, and gave the Presidents letter to the Japanese Shogunate, threatening military action if the Japanese did not open trade with the United States. On the other side of the spectrum, relationships between the U.S. and the then Kingdom of Hawaii were cordial for many decades before the annexation took place. As such the relationship between America and the Republic of Hawaii, soon to be simply the state of Hawaii, were much less strained, and any tense interactions were much more easily smoothed

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