MMW 14 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Tokyo Bay, Tokugawa Nariaki, Ii Naosuke

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

The japanese government (bakufu) shouldn"t try to make peace with the foreigners. The appearance of us warships in japanese waters and the audacity of the americans to survey the japanese people was disrespectful to the highest degree. Making peace with them would be accepting insult and putting japan in an inferior position to them. They weren"t supposed to be in japanese waters at all. Making peace with the us and accepting their terms would allow the spread of. Christianity which is one of the things that the bakufu has always been against. If japan allows trade with the us, it has to open its ports to anyone who wants access. Japan can maintain and spread its prestige without the help of foreign powers. If the japanese people stand firm, they can make progress and spread their name on their own.