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 | Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 (1st Edition) by George Feifer Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-06-088432-0 / 0060884320 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-088432-1 / 9780060884321 On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of intense planning by Matthew Perry, the squadron comman | |