*Master Chief. In training Chiefs, Senior Chiefs, and Master Chiefs would get quite upset if you gave them a field promotion or demotion. This wasn't helped by how hard it is to differentiate between no stars, one star, or two stars on the anchor.
Great video Master Chief. I barely remember the lectures on Naval History when I was in Bootcamp in 1985, but had they been presented like your videos, I would've remembered them in much better clarity. When I was stationed at ATG WESTPAC (1992-1995)I lived in an apartment complex with my wife in Kurihama about 1/2 mile from the train station up the hill while waiting for base housing. My Japanese coworkers told me the hill the apartment complex is built on was a Samurai-Ninja battle site, that may explain the weird dreams my wife and I had while living there. After retiring from the Navy, I visited my old neighborhood while on a job in 2006. A lot had changed and I barely remembered the layout, but the apartment complex on the hill was still their with the huge letters in English with the name of the apartment still clearly visible from the train station. My time in Japan was the best experience I had in the Navy and I always tell people that if it were possible I would still be living there, I just love that place, the people, the culture, everything.
I mean you left out the part where Perry sent his own message to the Shogunate saying that if Japan didn't cooperate that it would lead to a war that they could not win, I mean that's a dog move in my opinion.
i wont expect these biased channels to talk how japan already had all knowledge, about science, technoly, languages, maps, they knew everything.... from the europeans who were trading with japan for hundreds of years, just not with MURICA people love to think perry wrote a letter to japan with google translate and suddenly the savages made radios
I know that the arrival of the black ships would eventually lead to Japan's rise, but the aspect of sailing to the other side of the world and forcing a weaker nation to trade with your military power just seems like a bastard move to me...well we are America after all
Master Chief, this is arguably my favorite video you have posted yet. Fascinating and concise. Because it covered such a common nation/port of call for our Navy today. It made me wonder if you'd like to share where the Navy brought you to in your 30 years service?
Just a question about your presentation: Why did you make no mention of the firing of his cannons during the initial encounter with the shogunate? That was crucial to the opening of the ports as it greatly frightened the population, especially the samurai who realized their inability to defend against the gaijin.
Wow! Great video! I love history and It's always interesting to learn about the great Americans that aren't really taught in schools but changed the course of world history.
Thank you thank you thank you you did such an extraordinary job on this I live and teach in Japan and this is so helpful thank you again for this great work!!!!
I loved the video. Thank you. The US-Japan Treaty of Anmity and Commerce (Townsend Harris Treaty of 1858) was signed 29 July, 1858 on the USS Powhaton. Commodore Matthew Perry's second trip to Japan occurred in 1854. Commodore Perry passed away on 4 March and never saw the treaty signed.
@@bryanleggo3489 Have you heard of Al Stump. And the hatchet job he did on Ty Cobb? This is a similar case. Whomever wrote the Wikipedia article is a supreme moron. There aren’t many biographies of Townsend Harris. Bully? He was completely isolated, neglected and treated with contempt; he created a lasting treaty. He gets his poor reputation from alcohol when he first took his assignment and visited Paris. After his rebuke, he never drank again.
@@garryharris3777 It's not just one person who writes articles in Wikipedia. Nor is it the only source I could have cited nor where I learned about Perry in the first place. It was just one of the easiest ones online. Awww... the poor guy was so "isolated" he sailed to the other side of the world loaded with heavy guns and armed troops to create a "treaty" that the Japanese Shogun didn't want. He deserves our contempt. If not for infighting between the Shogun and the Emperor causing chaos, in part caused BY the US and other occupations, the "treaty" would have died since both factions wanted the Americans out. It was only the newly empowered Emperor many years later that wanted respect that he so industrialized and militarized Japan that they eventually became belligerently war-like as well. This form of intimidation is known as gunboat diplomacy although he's hardly the only one and it's hardly been just the U.S. Once intimidated other nations did the same in a militarily over-matched Japan and elsewhere. That the "black ships" frightened them is not in dispute. They're still doing it today in trying to intimidate China. If he died from cirrhosis of the liver he already drank enough to damage himself, which no, is not from a short time in Paris. That's not unusual. It's also not uncommon for heavy smokers who quit to eventually die of lung cancer. Ty Cobb is completely irrelevant as is Al Stump who didn't write any of Perry's history, regardless of what he said about Cobb. You're a supreme moron if you're that blind to American empire and American exceptionalism It was just less pervasive before WWII and really ramped up in the 1990's.
It’s fantastic to learn that you are a native born RHODE ISLANDER like myself born and raised in providence and a son of a naval veteran which he served in WW2 in the South Pacific and beyond into Korea . I served shortly after graduation from high school and serving 9 Years myself,. I enjoy watching your videos on UA-cam and listening to your stories.
One of the two states I haven't been to (Rhode Island and Maine) as I've trucked across the nation, (and vacationed in Alaska and Hawaii). I never served, but my grandfather flew bombers in Europe during WWII, before we entered the war.
I do remember learning about this when I was in high school, but our current curriculum doesn't even mention it. When I began teaching US History in 2003 I would reference it both in the pre-Civil War lessons and when we got to WW II as a way of understanding Japan's modernization in the 20th century that fueled their imperialism in the 30's. With all the emphasis on testing and preparing them for the test in the spring, I had to cut it out of the lessons to make sure I covered what they "need to know" for the test.
Probably and this is my guess: he knew that some Chinese or Germans were able to come to Nagasaki and they could steal (US) ideas or treaty with japan? Just my guess.
because nagasaki is where all the international trading happened; he would jsut be another foreigner, but this foreigner had war crime on his mind, people would pickl up on that
In Tokyo antique bookstore, I found first edition of Commodore Perry’s report to Congress. Four volumes. (Listed as three, but fourth book is maps). I bought and have with me. BIG books.
On a West Pac in 1977 we pulled into Shimoda for the Black Ship Festival. We rigged our ships lighting from aft to stern as high up as we could get it. At night the Japanese said it looked like Mt.Fuji. Not what we were going for but it was one of the more memorable ports we visited. Ugliest damn uniforms the navy ever had was in that time period. Probably the only time in my life I would have looked good in cracker jacks, but we had to wear the left over soviet style navy uniform.
I'm watching this video froum Turkey. I had always thought of Japan as a enemy of USA, because of WW2. after watching a video discussion of a couple of young Turkish students who all have been to Japan for university, I found out I was deeply wrong. I googled something and ended up to this video.
3:50 Japan was closed to the Western world and to the Russians during that time, *except sometimes for a limited number of Dutch people* allowed to be present only on the artificial island of Dejima, off Nagasaki. The Japanese sought access to Western subject matter experts and Western books on subjects such as gunnery, medicine, sailing, shipbuilding, metallurgy, and navigation, but under highly controlled conditions and exclusively on Japan's terms. From 1603 to 1868, Japanese leaders mostly closed Japan to the outside world largely because they considered Christianity something of a national security threat and a sneaky vehicle for colonialism. There was some overreaction, but over time, there were examples both in Japan and abroad suggesting this viewpoint was not entirely without merit. Sometimes there were civil disturbances in Japan that involved groups of Japanese people who wanted to follow their interpretation of Christianity. During that period in Japan, some foreigners intentionally disseminated false information about other foreigners with whom they had disagreements. They claimed that those affiliated with different groups sought to create problems for Japan. These falsehoods stemmed from disputes and competition among Westerners over their schemes for financial profit, over the different denominations of Christianity, manuevering in Japan in the hope of an advantage for one Western country over another, and so on. The strictness of the ban was not always absolutely the same, and the information above is a simplification.
Excellent presentation: launches straight in without introduction, presents the narrative in a logical order and no distracting background music. Thanks for making this.
Great video. Thanks master chief. I have fond memories of Newport while stationed on USS CONNOLE (FF 1056) 1981-1985. Lived out on Harrison Avenue. - senior chief, retired
Good information and presentation. No complains about it overall. I just do not think it is true that the name if Perry is mostly unknown in America, or especially among the navy persons. I think he is one of the most known names.
I'm not even done with the video yet but this is really great. The narration is lovely, detailed, and enthusiastic. It will always be eternally interesting to me how the early relationship between America and Japan was. For better or worse. I'm just satisfied to learn more abt my fav country in the world: Japan. If Commodore Perry's expedition was a failure our world would be very different today. In terms of culture, wartime participation, trade of course, and even being able to watch videos like these. Can't study up on a country that refuses to reveal anything abt itself.
Master Chief your videos are so damned good, my only wish is that you made more of them. Thank you very much for your service, hard work and attention to detail. The “History” Channel should hire you as their President and redeem their name. God bless you n yours.
japan; we;ve been open for hundreds of years, please to go the front of the store and walk in perry: I NEEEEED IN, GIMME GIMME OR I KILLLL YOU japan; ffs ok ok relax you maniac
Thank you so much! Needless to say, he's just briefly mentioned in Middle school, High school, and College. You gave so much more rich information, much appreciated!
Good documentary. History is fascinating and unpredictable, within less than 100 years Japan-US relations goes from good spirited trade to dropping atomic weapons on them.
One of the strangest facts which was a result of the expedition was the Awkward and strange friendship between Japan and the United States. While the friendship was extremely tested by World War 2 or the Pacific War, the friendship continue. Today Japan is one of America's most important allies. Oddly the Untied States was not interest in transforming Japan into a colony during the time when England and France were interested in establishing colonies.
Given what the two Perry's accomplished for the US Navy, there should always be a USS Perry afloat.
Great job, Chief. Thank you.
They commission a number of destroyers and destroyer escorts name Perry.
*Master Chief. In training Chiefs, Senior Chiefs, and Master Chiefs would get quite upset if you gave them a field promotion or demotion. This wasn't helped by how hard it is to differentiate between no stars, one star, or two stars on the anchor.
I WHOLE HEARTEDLY AGREE ... Heck I think after CVN 80 U.S.S. ENTERPRISE launches, CVN 81 should be U.S.S PERRY ... Though I may be a wee bit biased.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
@@stevep1092
Yes ofc, thousands of Japanese died that day from the evil Imperialist commodore Perry
Don't know if another would have failed but think of the timeline if Japan had been opened after the Civil War.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
Great video Master Chief. I barely remember the lectures on Naval History when I was in Bootcamp in 1985, but had they been presented like your videos, I would've remembered them in much better clarity.
When I was stationed at ATG WESTPAC (1992-1995)I lived in an apartment complex with my wife in Kurihama about 1/2 mile from the train station up the hill while waiting for base housing. My Japanese coworkers told me the hill the apartment complex is built on was a Samurai-Ninja battle site, that may explain the weird dreams my wife and I had while living there.
After retiring from the Navy, I visited my old neighborhood while on a job in 2006. A lot had changed and I barely remembered the layout, but the apartment complex on the hill was still their with the huge letters in English with the name of the apartment still clearly visible from the train station.
My time in Japan was the best experience I had in the Navy and I always tell people that if it were possible I would still be living there, I just love that place, the people, the culture, everything.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
Basically, "give us what we want or we'll go to war."
god bless murica
I mean you left out the part where Perry sent his own message to the Shogunate saying that if Japan didn't cooperate that it would lead to a war that they could not win, I mean that's a dog move in my opinion.
typical american solution; give us what we want or we take it
@ohhi5237 eh, that's leagues better than the typical Imperial Japanese way of doing things.
This was special. Thank you for bringing it to us.
Love seeing those period artworks, documents, and photos!
7:10 You left out that he turned all his guns on the city and told the japanese that he would destroy the city unless they took his letter.
i wont expect these biased channels to talk how japan already had all knowledge, about science, technoly, languages, maps, they knew everything.... from the europeans who were trading with japan for hundreds of years, just not with MURICA
people love to think perry wrote a letter to japan with google translate and suddenly the savages made radios
Yeah wish he didn't leave that part out. Still pretty informative other than that.
@@bickyboo7789
Oh that's not important
Fortunately my American history class covered Perry, but it's always great to get more detail
I know that the arrival of the black ships would eventually lead to Japan's rise, but the aspect of sailing to the other side of the world and forcing a weaker nation to trade with your military power just seems like a bastard move to me...well we are America after all
MURICAAAA
This man was a midshipman at 15 years old?
And here I was thinking some midshipmen looked like children these days!
Master Chief, this is arguably my favorite video you have posted yet. Fascinating and concise.
Because it covered such a common nation/port of call for our Navy today. It made me wonder if you'd like to share where the Navy brought you to in your 30 years service?
Just a question about your presentation: Why did you make no mention of the firing of his cannons during the initial encounter with the shogunate? That was crucial to the opening of the ports as it greatly frightened the population, especially the samurai who realized their inability to defend against the gaijin.
probably the best video about this subject
in fact, perry was sailing under a false flag (not a pun) and the actual people in the harbor warned japan about the invaders
Wow! Great video! I love history and It's always interesting to learn about the great Americans that aren't really taught in schools but changed the course of world history.
Thank you thank you thank you you did such an extraordinary job on this I live and teach in Japan and this is so helpful thank you again for this great work!!!!
I loved the video. Thank you.
The US-Japan Treaty of Anmity and Commerce (Townsend Harris Treaty of 1858) was signed 29 July, 1858 on the USS Powhaton. Commodore Matthew Perry's second trip to Japan occurred in 1854. Commodore Perry passed away on 4 March and never saw the treaty signed.
From cirrhosis of the liver since he was a drunk. And imperial bully. Good riddance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu
@@bryanleggo3489 Have you heard of Al Stump. And the hatchet job he did on Ty Cobb? This is a similar case. Whomever wrote the Wikipedia article is a supreme moron. There aren’t many biographies of Townsend Harris. Bully? He was completely isolated, neglected and treated with contempt; he created a lasting treaty.
He gets his poor reputation from alcohol when he first took his assignment and visited Paris. After his rebuke, he never drank again.
@@garryharris3777 It's not just one person who writes articles in Wikipedia. Nor is it the only source I could have cited nor where I learned about Perry in the first place. It was just one of the easiest ones online.
Awww... the poor guy was so "isolated" he sailed to the other side of the world loaded with heavy guns and armed troops to create a "treaty" that the Japanese Shogun didn't want. He deserves our contempt. If not for infighting between the Shogun and the Emperor causing chaos, in part caused BY the US and other occupations, the "treaty" would have died since both factions wanted the Americans out. It was only the newly empowered Emperor many years later that wanted respect that he so industrialized and militarized Japan that they eventually became belligerently war-like as well.
This form of intimidation is known as gunboat diplomacy although he's hardly the only one and it's hardly been just the U.S. Once intimidated other nations did the same in a militarily over-matched Japan and elsewhere. That the "black ships" frightened them is not in dispute.
They're still doing it today in trying to intimidate China.
If he died from cirrhosis of the liver he already drank enough to damage himself, which no, is not from a short time in Paris. That's not unusual. It's also not uncommon for heavy smokers who quit to eventually die of lung cancer.
Ty Cobb is completely irrelevant as is Al Stump who didn't write any of Perry's history, regardless of what he said about Cobb. You're a supreme moron if you're that blind to American empire and American exceptionalism It was just less pervasive before WWII and really ramped up in the 1990's.
@@bryanleggo3489 Cite your reference that Townsend Harris died of cirrhosis.
It’s fantastic to learn that you are a native born RHODE ISLANDER like myself born and raised in providence and a son of a naval veteran which he served in WW2 in the South Pacific and beyond into Korea .
I served shortly after graduation from high school and serving 9 Years myself,.
I enjoy watching your videos on UA-cam and listening to your stories.
One of the two states I haven't been to (Rhode Island and Maine) as I've trucked across the nation, (and vacationed in Alaska and Hawaii).
I never served, but my grandfather flew bombers in Europe during WWII, before we entered the war.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
"If they just sign the treaty, he may kiss me"-😂
Wonderfully informative presentation, thank you and looking forward to the next one.
Awesome video Master Chief, thank you very much.
Fascinating man.
I do remember learning about this when I was in high school, but our current curriculum doesn't even mention it. When I began teaching US History in 2003 I would reference it both in the pre-Civil War lessons and when we got to WW II as a way of understanding Japan's modernization in the 20th century that fueled their imperialism in the 30's. With all the emphasis on testing and preparing them for the test in the spring, I had to cut it out of the lessons to make sure I covered what they "need to know" for the test.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
Why did Perry insist on having the negotiations occur at a location other than Nagasaki?
i was thinking that maybe they had set up a trap there. So he would purposely pick a random spot they couldn't know about ahead of time to trap.
Probably and this is my guess: he knew that some Chinese or Germans were able to come to Nagasaki and they could steal (US) ideas or treaty with japan? Just my guess.
because nagasaki is where all the international trading happened; he would jsut be another foreigner, but this foreigner had war crime on his mind, people would pickl up on that
@@xojitosx if europeans were already in japan, wasnt it america who stole the europeans idea of trade? jesus man try harder
After two Japanese exchange students, I wish I would have known more about Commodore Perry to ask them how much they knew!
Open the country. I want to eat nice Japanese food. Rice, Miso, Sushi, Ramen
sushi wasnt actually japanese; they were vegan
Japanese traditional foods delicious.
In Tokyo antique bookstore, I found first edition of Commodore Perry’s report to Congress. Four volumes. (Listed as three, but fourth book is maps). I bought and have with me. BIG books.
Awesome video sir. Very interesting.
This was such a fun video, thank you for sharing this.
On a West Pac in 1977 we pulled into Shimoda for the Black Ship Festival. We rigged our ships lighting from aft to stern as high up as we could get it. At night the Japanese said it looked like Mt.Fuji. Not what we were going for but it was one of the more memorable ports we visited. Ugliest damn uniforms the navy ever had was in that time period. Probably the only time in my life I would have looked good in cracker jacks, but we had to wear the left over soviet style navy uniform.
This United states of America and Matthew parry's mission became very essential and very important in US history
I'm watching this video froum Turkey. I had always thought of Japan as a enemy of USA, because of WW2. after watching a video discussion of a couple of young Turkish students who all have been to Japan for university, I found out I was deeply wrong. I googled something and ended up to this video.
3:50 Japan was closed to the Western world and to the Russians during that time, *except sometimes for a limited number of Dutch people* allowed to be present only on the artificial island of Dejima, off Nagasaki. The Japanese sought access to Western subject matter experts and Western books on subjects such as gunnery, medicine, sailing, shipbuilding, metallurgy, and navigation, but under highly controlled conditions and exclusively on Japan's terms. From 1603 to 1868, Japanese leaders mostly closed Japan to the outside world largely because they considered Christianity something of a national security threat and a sneaky vehicle for colonialism. There was some overreaction, but over time, there were examples both in Japan and abroad suggesting this viewpoint was not entirely without merit. Sometimes there were civil disturbances in Japan that involved groups of Japanese people who wanted to follow their interpretation of Christianity. During that period in Japan, some foreigners intentionally disseminated false information about other foreigners with whom they had disagreements. They claimed that those affiliated with different groups sought to create problems for Japan. These falsehoods stemmed from disputes and competition among Westerners over their schemes for financial profit, over the different denominations of Christianity, manuevering in Japan in the hope of an advantage for one Western country over another, and so on. The strictness of the ban was not always absolutely the same, and the information above is a simplification.
7/14/1853
USA: this is a great decision😊
12/7/1941
USA: well that came back to bite me😐
the most obnoxiously unnecessary loud noise to open a video with in any UA-cam video, EVER...
Great video as always.
Oorah Commodore Perry
I am actually kinned to Commodore Perry on my dad's and grandmother's side.
12/7/1941
USA: well that came back to us😐
I learned a lot about Perry and the negotiations for the treaty. Thank you.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
Excellent presentation: launches straight in without introduction, presents the narrative in a logical order and no distracting background music. Thanks for making this.
Great video. Thanks master chief. I have fond memories of Newport while stationed on USS CONNOLE (FF 1056) 1981-1985. Lived out on Harrison Avenue. - senior chief, retired
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
Poor japan, no one told them life was going to be this way.
open the country. stop having it be closed.
it wasnt closed.
What a bad take,Matthew. This was one of the reasons Japan later became like East Asia ISIS.
Awesome
BZ - Master Chief.
Good information and presentation. No complains about it overall. I just do not think it is true that the name if Perry is mostly unknown in America, or especially among the navy persons. I think he is one of the most known names.
I think I'd give just about anything to have been a fly on the wall at that party. That must have been something!
Great story Master Chief! In 1866, my Great-Grandfather was a sailor aboard the USS Powhatan during his enlistment in the Navy!
I'm not even done with the video yet but this is really great. The narration is lovely, detailed, and enthusiastic. It will always be eternally interesting to me how the early relationship between America and Japan was. For better or worse. I'm just satisfied to learn more abt my fav country in the world: Japan. If Commodore Perry's expedition was a failure our world would be very different today. In terms of culture, wartime participation, trade of course, and even being able to watch videos like these. Can't study up on a country that refuses to reveal anything abt itself.
why would anyone think this is the opinion of the navy? you got an outsided idea of how important your little video don't you? good vid though.
Wow! I really appreciated this. Super educational. It was exactly what I was looking for.
Excellent video from a US Navy IC1(SS)
Well done ✔️
Great work
Huh. So he was an actual diplomat. Not just threaten them at face.
What a very fascinating video! I loved the personal anecdotes you included.
How old was his brother? Was his father like had a lot of wifes in succession order?
10:19 insert joke about August 1945
Good knowledge and good video information. Thanks.
Master Chief your videos are so damned good, my only wish is that you made more of them. Thank you very much for your service, hard work and attention to detail. The “History” Channel should hire you as their President and redeem their name. God bless you n yours.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
That was a great video , thanks for your efforts :)
This story would make a great film.
Great job! Thank you
"Bruh, open Japan homie." -Matthew Perry
japan; we;ve been open for hundreds of years, please to go the front of the store and walk in
perry: I NEEEEED IN, GIMME GIMME OR I KILLLL YOU
japan; ffs ok ok relax you maniac
Excellent presentation!
Very interesting thanks
Thank you so much! Needless to say, he's just briefly mentioned in Middle school, High school, and College. You gave so much more rich information, much appreciated!
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
@@stevep1092 yeah sure they “invaded”
Great work.
Thank you
Good documentary. History is fascinating and unpredictable, within less than 100 years Japan-US relations goes from good spirited trade to dropping atomic weapons on them.
So the USA invaded Japan before Pearl Harbour ?
real founding father of Japan
Glory USA And Matthew Calbraith Perry
One of the strangest facts which was a result of the expedition was the Awkward and strange friendship between Japan and the United States. While the friendship was extremely tested by World War 2 or the Pacific War, the friendship continue. Today Japan is one of America's most important allies. Oddly the Untied States was not interest in transforming Japan into a colony during the time when England and France were interested in establishing colonies.
"TWO BLACK AFRICANS" japan has black samurai by that time, TRY HARDER PLEASE
Wtf are you talking about? This ain't about your yasuke!
The day when Japan became a lapdog of the Americans, except when they attacked the Pearl Harbor