The Kanagawa Treaty is a pro-Japanese treaty concluded between the Edo shogunate and the United States on March 3 1, 1854 (March 3, the seventh year of Yongjia (the old calendar)). It is commonly known as the Japan-US pro-Japanese treaty in Japan. The signing representative, Lin Fuzhai (president of the university) is the plenipotentiary in Japan, and Matthew Perry, commander of the East India Fleet, is the plenipotentiary in the United States. The treaty mainly stipulates that Japan must open two ports, Shimoda and Hakodate, to trade with the United States and ensure the safety of the American crew of the wrecked ship.
The treaty allows American ships to berth and buy goods at Shimoda and Hakodate. Japan has the obligation to rescue American ships and personnel who have been shipwrecked; Japan promises to provide coal, fresh water, grain and other necessary materials to American ships passing through open ports; Japan agreed that American diplomats would be stationed in Shimoda within1August and set up consuls. At the same time, Japan is required to give the United States MFN treatment.
The Treaty of Kanagawa, which the shogunate was forced to conclude, was the product of the disparity in comprehensive national strength between Japan and the United States. In particular, the opening of Shimoda and Hakodate ports broke through the blockade system with Nagasaki as the only foreign exchange port. Britain, Russia and the Netherlands signed contracts with Japan one after another, and the door of Japan was opened.
From the troubled times at the end of the curtain to the early years of Meiji, the Treaty of Kanagawa was just one of the inevitable unequal treaties between Japan and the great powers. According to this treaty, Japan opened two ports, Shimoda and Hakodate (now Hakodate), and Japan's lock-up system collapsed.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Kanagawa Treaty