Here is my YouTube Video : Japanese History in 3 minutes #33 Commodore Perry On July 8, 1853, four black ships appeared at Uraga. The huge warships that appeared in Edo Bay wreaked havoc on the people of Edo. On board, the flagship, the frigate Susquehanna, was Matthew Calbraith Perry, the man who ended Japan’s isolationist policy that had lasted more than 200 years. Perry was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1794, he joined the U.S. Navy at the age of 14. In 1852 he became Commander in Chief of the East India Squadron, carrying a letter from President Fillmore to Japan to make Japan a whaling port of…