In 1853, Mathew C Perry came to Uraga; the Commodore of the US navy, who played a significant role in Japanese history, succeeded in opening Japan to foreign countries. Japanese industry was 200years behind European countries at that time, and Japanese’s industrial revolution started in Saga, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Kitakyushu and other places in Japan.

Mathew C Perry came to Uraga in 1853…の続きを読む

  Dejima was the fan-shaped artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki where was used as a trading port during Japan’s National isolation of Edo period. In 1636, the artificial island, Dejima was constructed to accommodate  Portuguese who lived in Nagasaki and to prohibit Christian missionary work. In 1638, trade with Portugal was prohibited and Dejima becaome an uninhabited island. In 1641, the Dutch trading post in Hirado was moved to Dejima, and then the history of trade with the Netherlands began at Dejima as only the gateway to European in Japan.

History of Dejima from 1636…の続きを読む

  Edo period ruled by the Tokugawa Shogun and was a period of 265 years from 1603 to 1867. The national isolation of the Edo period is that prohibited Japanese people from traveling abroad and returning home. And, Nagasaki became the only place for foreign trade, and restricted to Dutch trading posts and Chinese ships.

National isolation in the Edo period…の続きを読む