After the visit of Commodore Matthew Perry, the country was forced to sign a series of unequal treaties, which, as in China, gave Western nations special privileges in Japan.

在美国海军准将伯理“造访”后，日本被迫签定了一系列不平等条约，包括给予西方列强特权，如同他们在中国一样。

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Former president Millard Fillmore had sent Navy Commodore Matthew Perry to Asia.

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That was the famous Meiji emperor, and in his case the visiting American was Commodore Matthew Perry , who steamed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 with a powerful squadron and "suggested" that Japan abandon its feudal isolation and open relations with the outside world.

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This defect also is notable in smaller ways, as when the author refers to "Admiral Perry and his American warships off Tokyo" (Matthew Perry was only a commodore), and when we are told (erroneously) in passing that the old New York World gave its name to baseball's World Series.

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