In the Imperalistic point of view Who Was Commodore Perry ?

Question

Also what did he do involving ovrseas?

Answer 1

If you want to think of it this way, Japan was in self isolation for 200 years until Perry in 1854 decides to sail 4 ships into Tokyo Bay with the expressed interest in:
1.Peace and friendship between the United States and Japan.
2.Opening of two ports to American ships at Shimoda and Hakodate
3.Help for any American ships wrecked on the Japanese coast and protection for shipwrecked persons
4.Permission for American ships to buy supplies, coal, water, and other necessary provisions in Japanese ports.

Perry succeeded in his mission, but he also succeeded in waking a sleeping monster(not godzilla or mothra) as Japan started to open up and look at the rest of the world which was begining to industrialize and cut up the world in an imperialist pursuit. Like that envious next door neighbor who always tries to one-up you, Japan too decided it needed to be industrialized but with its limited natural resources:steel, oil, minerals etc... decides on a campaign of imperialism througout Asia starting in the late 19th and early to mid 20th century. It was their logic that everyone else in Europe was getting a piece of China and Asia, so why shouldn't they afterall they were Asian.
Perhaps the best thing that Perry did was giving cameras to the Japanese, afterall one of Perry's first gifts to the Japanese was a camera and Japanese took to cameras like fish to water. And before somebody goes off half ****** that I am racist, I am Japanese, and I am just being self depricating, oh yeah and I am a photographer.

Answer 2

There are two Commodore Perrys. They were brothers. But, when I read up on them, I feel they represent identical values.

They both have intruded on neutral and non-hostile nations (Canada, Mexico and Japan). They, purely for the interest of expansion and not protection, used military might to advance the interest of their nation, disregarding any pretenses of civilized behavior (not to mention rather bad manners I must say).

Oliver Perry's (military active) service was in North America only. His brother Matthew Perry threatened naval bombardment of Japan if Japan didn't open it's trading policies to the Americans (The Japanese traded only with Chinese and Dutch at the time).

Answer 3

Depends; some was for purely economic reasons, place to sell good from the mother country and a source of raw materials. Some were for military purposes, i.e. the Samoan Islands as coaling stations in the coat burning ship era. Some was nationalistic reasons, i.e. The Sun never sets on the British Empire (and it didn't).

Perry was the commander of the US Fleet that defeated the Spanish navy in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

Answer 4

gay commodore!