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Kanagawa Treaty House
A specially built treaty house in Yokohama, Japan was the site of the negotiation and signing of the Convention of Kanagawa (or The Treaty of Amity and Friendship) signed on March 31, 1854, which established "a perfect, permanent, and universal peace" between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan. The treaty, secured largely on the strength of plenipotentiary Commodore Perry's gunships, led to the Harris Treaty which opened commercial trade between the two nations.
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