Multimedia Collection
Meiji: Asia's Response to the West
(The Pacific Century series)
VHS
60 minutes
DS503.4 .P321 1992 v.2
Discusses Commodore Perry's invasion of Tokoyo Bay and the ensuing trade treaty with the U.S. which ended Japan's 250-year seclusion. Mobilized by the charismatic leader, Emperor Meiji, Japan reorganized its society and cast aside centuries of tradition to become the first industrially under-developed nation to become a modern world power.
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