The Japanese and American delegations to Kanagawa after signing the treaty
The Treaty of Peace and Amity, also called the Opening of Japan, was an 1854 treaty signed by Shogun Tokugawa Iesada of the Tokugawa Shogunate and Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States in the Kanagawa Convention. The senkaku policy of not accepting foreign trade (except from China and the Dutch) was finally broken, and Japan was opened to foreigners. This treaty would eventually lead to a revolution against the Shogun, who had abandoned his people, in 1868: the Boshin War. While some elements of society who sought to modernize Japan supported the treaty, the supporters of the Emperor Komei were opposed to the deals, as they were one-sided in favor of the West.
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