【幕末】190 黒船来航と日米和親条約【日本史】

Today, the United States wants to befriend the people of Japan. Because of that will, I set chapters that will protect us for a long time to come.

Hello everyone. This video is about the Kurofune and the Convention of Kanagawa. With this video, the Sakoku that lasted for more than 200 years will end, and Japan will proceed to opening of the country. The Kurofune was such a big turning point, but what kind of event was it? First of all, let's start by looking back at how foreign countries were at that time.

review. Around this time, there was a big incident in Asia. It's an Opium War. The war between England and Qing was ultimately won by Britain. This triggered the Qing to move toward semi-colonization. Finished review. In this way, when Britain advanced into Qing, the United States thought that it could not lose to Britain and advanced into Qing.

America at this time was using transatlantic routes to trade with Qing. However, this route is a route that is more advantageous to rival Britain. For America, it took too many days and was a disadvantage. The United States thought that this situation could not be continued, and came up with a route that crosses the Pacific Ocean.

If the US were to take that route, it would take about the same number of days as the UK. And the United States decided to make Japan, an island in the Pacific Ocean, a refueling point. Let's take a look at Japan at this time. MASAHIRO ABE, the feudal lord of FUKUYAMA, was in charge of the government in place of TADAKUNI MIZUNO introduced in the previous video.

MASAHIRO ABE, who was appointed to the roju shuza, was in charge of politics in this difficult time. At this time, the Shogunate knew from information from the Netherlands that the United States was pressing Japan for trade. Therefore, the Shogunate established a department called KAIBOUGAKARI to protect the coast, and appointed talented people within the Shogunate to it.