Author(s): Rhoda Blumberg
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 144
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Language: English
Date Published: 2003-01-21
Dimensions: 220.98 x 281.94 x 17.78mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
Edition:
Illustrations: black & white illustrations, frontispiece

In 1853, few Japanese people
knew that a country
called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign "or" Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal system like that of Europe in the Middle Ages. But everything began to change when American Commodore Perry and his troops sailed to the Land of the Rising Sun, bringing with them new science and technology, and a new way of life.