mar 31, 1854 - Commadore Matthew C. Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa, the first treaty between Japan and the United States. The Treaty obtains two coaling ports for the United States, protects the rights of American whalers, and plants the seeds for a commercial treaty between the two nations in 1858
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