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History That Doesn't Suck · Nov 24, 2025
193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)
“Led the 1853 expedition that forced Japan to open its ports, catalyzing Japan's modernization and ending isolationism.”
Japanese Meiji Restoration and modernization (1868–1890)Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition and Treaty of Kanagawa (1853–1854)Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
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