Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Shimoda treaty port (1854–59)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Shimoda”
1854–1859 — The first port opened to Americans. Here the Russian envoy Putyatin signs the 1855 treaty that divides the Kurils between Japan and Russia, and from 1856 the American consul Townsend Harris presses the shogunate for a full commercial treaty.
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- Black Ships and the opening of Japan (chapter 2 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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