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INTRODUCTION: Before 1852 - Japan was considered an isolated country until before 1852. It had the trade relations only between the Dutch islands and the Nagasaki of Japan. 1852 - But in 1852, Mathew C Perry, the commander of US nay reached the bay of Tokyo and handed over a letter to the Shogun asking to open up the economy. When the Japanese did not accept it, he just shelled few buildings in the harbour. An year later, he came back to Japan and a treaty was made to open the economy. Japan had no other option but to agree the terms and open their economy for trade. They were also technically outdated. This was the ignition of the hatred of Japan towards the Americans. CONSEQUENCES OF OPENING THE ECONOMY: 1) It is called the realization era of Japanese history. The Japanese who considered their country to be the strongest country, realized that it was no equal to US power. 2) It never thought that it would suffer like China under someone's regime, but arisen such situation.

INTRODUCTION: Japan was the nation that put efforts to come out of seclusion during the late 19th century. It realized the importance of its nationality, religion, language, territory and people. This led Japan to secure its territory in the conquering world of that day.  Firstly it wanted to expand its Teritorry to meet the other great powers and thus become one of the greatest powers of the world. So it eyed on chinese teritorry and the pacific islands which were then under the control of Germany. Japan did not play a major role in the world war 1. But that minor role shook the other countries and made it the most powerful nation then. 1894 - The dispute over the korean region which was considered strategically important to both the nations led to the Sino-Japanese war in which Japan enjoyed the tremendous victory.  1902 - This was the period when Japan went into military alliance with Britain. 1905 - Russo Japanese war over the teritorries of Manchuria and Korea. Russia w