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| Tango01 | 31 Jan 2020 9:52 p.m. PST |
"Most groups of friends won't kick a guy when he's down. For example, when your buddy loses his job, the last thing you do is make fun of him. Well, someone forgot to tell that to Japan in the early 20th century. Indeed, rather than pick up its neighbor, China, and dust off his shoulders for him, Japan exploited the weakness and internal strife of China to aggressively invade Chinese territory. Prior to the mid-19th century, Japan had been closed to any foreign travelers or traders. This xenophobic policy, that had been in place since the early 17th century, was extreme; stories emerged of shipwrecked sailors from Western Europe being killed just for washing up on the island nation's shores. However, this changed in the 1850s, when an American fleet led by Commodore Matthew Perry forced the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan, to sign treaties that opened its ports to foreign trade…"
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