Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.
Contents
1. Aliens arrive -- 2. The black ships of the evil men -- 3. His high and mighty mysteriousness -- 4. Landing on sacred soil -- 5. The Dutch Island prison -- 6. Foreigners forbidden -- 7. The great peace -- 8. Clouds over the land of the rising sun -- 9. The black ships return -- 10. The treaty house -- 11. An array of gifts -- 12. The grand banquet -- 13. The treaty -- 14. Excursions on land and sea -- 15. Shore leave -- 16. In the wake of the black ships.