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AT THE BEGINNING of September 1854, almost six months after Commodore Perry had concluded his convention with Japan, Sir James Stirling, Commander-in-Chief of the British East Indies fleet, took a squadron into Nagasaki harbour to negotiate with the Japanese officials there.
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middle samurai, upper samurai, lesser samurai, fief government, lower samurai, treaty port system, loyalist movement, samurai origin, samurai rank, other fiefs, ordinary revenue, feudal class, student interpreters, feudal status, emperor system
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Meiji Restoration, Foreign Office, United States, Kwantung Army, Co-prosperity Sphere, Great Britain, New York, Opium War, Standard Histories, Hong Kong, Rutherford Alcock, Takechi Zuizan, New Order, Pacific War, Tokugawa Bakufu, Chinese Secretary, English Diary of Negotiations, Foreign Ministry, General Staff, Okubo Toshimichi, Sir Harry Parkes, Terajima Munenori, Commodore Perry, Foreign Secretary, Hsin-min Hui
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