100th History – Bunk16 Productions

IV – Path to War in Pacific
The Meiji and Modernization of Japan

Yoshitoshi With the arrival of Commodore Perry, Japan’s political elites realized that the U.S., as well as many other

William Sturgis Bigelow Collection In 1853, when Commodore Matthew Perry and the United States naval squadron steamed into Edo Bay,

Traditional Picture Bride Photo & 1920s Japanese Wedding Photo After annexation, when Hawaii came under American law, contract labor immigration

Japanese workers on a plantation in Hawaii, c. 1910. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-ggbain-13386) The first group of Japanese immigrants to