In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbor with his gun ships. What Perry did (once euphemistically called "the opening of Japan") was controversial both then and now. But Perry did not go to Japan out of the goodness of his (or America's) heart; rather, he and his ships were there on behalf of old-fashioned, bare-knuckle, imperialistic capitalism.
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