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  Japanese print maker Katsushika Hukusai finishes does tons of artwork and finishes Mount Fuji.
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  Matthew C. Perry and his crew arrive at the coast of Japan in four separate ships. He orders harbor buildings to be forced to negotiate for a letter President Millard Fillmore sent to the ruler of Japan.
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  The Treaty of Shimoda was the first treaty between the Russian Empire, and the Empire of Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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  Four British subjects were attacked by guards of the Tokaido for not paying the proper respect to a daimyo in addition, a merchant was killed.
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  The Meiji period, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era that lasted from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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  The Japanese invasion of Taiwan was a conflict between the Empire of Japan and the armed forces of the short-lived Republic of Formosa.
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  Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
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  The Japanese invasion of French Indochina was a short undeclared military meeting between the Empire of Japan and Vichy France in northern Indochina.
