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The Beginnings of Marine Archaeology in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Jan de Vries
Jan de Vries
Affiliation:
(former secretary Japan-Netherlands Institute, Tokyo), Van Alkemadelaan 1138, 2597 BL Den Haag
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Admiral Perry's arrival in Uraga-bay in 1853 brough about enormous changes in Japan's society which had, roughly speaking, been a stable and rigid organization ever since the isolation policy was fully implemented around 1640.

Not only was Japan's society turned upside down by the American action, but Perry's ‘black ships’ made the Japanese realize that the foreign threat could only be countered with a western-style navy.

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Itinerario , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 62 - 67
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1981

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