Who was Matthew Perry?
No, I’m not talking about the actor in American TV show “Friends”. I’m talking about the Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, the guy who “opened” Japan in end of 1800. I’m curious about the guy, why he chose his assignment to “negotiate” the trade routes to Japan, under a Dutch flag. Why I use so many quotes is that I don’t think that any negotiation can be real negotiation when there are bunch of black ships with cannons around. Perry did demonstrate that his guns are fully functional. Interesting, but rather unknown detail. If Japan would have been locked chest, Perry did not use a key to open it, but rather pried the sucker open with a brute force. Who has time to care about unnecessary formalities when the leaders of super country request RESULTS in certain timeframe? In all the pictures I’ve seen of Perry, he wears a serious pose, kind of “dontgettooclose or I’ll biteya”- look. And I think it is interesting point that the fleet of ships were indeed black. No, they were not indigo o
