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A 6 page overview of U.S./Japanese relations since her 1854 abandonment of the seclusionist policies that had been so detrimental to her socioeconomic growth, an abandonment that had occurred largely as a result of the insistence of U.S. Commodore Perry. The author contends that Japan and the U.S. alike have gained more from their interrelationship than they have lost but that the interaction has been a love/hate relationship at best. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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progressive nations of the world. Prior to the mid 1800s, however, Japans seclusionist policies had not only served to isolate the country from outside influence but also to detain
the country and its people from progressing either economically or culturally. As a result, Japans socioeconomic system had virtually collapsed. Fortunately, the seclusionist policies that had been so
detrimental to Japan were abandoned in 1854 at the insistence of U.S. Commodore Perry. Subsequent U.S. influence in the country resulted in continual economic and sociocultural advancement. Japan thus
has much to thank the U.S. for. At the same time, however, the relationship between these countries has been as much conflictual as it has been amiable. This
relationship can be attributed to a number of underlying political, economic, ideological, cultural and racial tensions. The racial tensions that have existed between
the U.S. and Japan are particularly noteworthy. Obviously, the Japanese are racially distinctive from mainstream Americans. That fact alone has cause various stirs throughout history as each race perceived
the other in a somewhat deleterious manner. Specific problems arose in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century with a heightened potential for Japanese immigration to the U.S. The new
arrivals were welcomed into their new country not with open arms but with rampant racism and prejudice, racism and prejudice which resulted in such official measures as the Asian Exclusion
Act and other laws dictating the circumstances of Japanese immigration and their fate once they were here. It can be contended that these laws were passed out of fear
as to what impact the new arrivals would have on mainstream America. Obviously there was implicit racism in the 1882 Chinese exclusion Act, an Act that made immigration from
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