Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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At long last, Japan is set to open with the arrival of a military expedition from the United States. It is here we will witness the Shogunate in crisis as Japanese leaders scramble on how to answer America's demands.

Link to Edo Period series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrlMflnRScAKiin4CQvwkIvI9enpxgclD

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Sources Used:
"A History of Modern Japan" by Christopher Harding
"Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai" by Romulus Hillsborough.
"Commodore Perry and the Japanese: A Study in the Dramaturgy of Power" article by Michio Kitahara
"A History of the Samurai" by Jonathan Lopez-Vera
"A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower" by Kenneth Henshall
"A History of Japan" by RHP Mason and JG Caiger
"The Samurai: A New History of the Warrior Elite" by Jonathan Clements
"TOKYO, JULY 8, 1853: PERRY OPENS JAPAN" article from the New York Times
Additional information found through the Japanese Wiki Corpus

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Music from:
In the West by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Artist: incompetech.com
Empire: Total War
Rise of the Ronin
Ghost of Yotei

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