March 17, 1860, the Japanese

Embassy arrives to San Francisco. The

ship that brought these nice fellows

here was the U.S.S Powhatan. There

was a rumor around that America

forced the Japanese to open trade

with us. This doesn't seem very Ameri-

can of us, but is a possibility that this

was the reason why they would open

their doors to our foreign country. If

none you folks knew, the Japanese

closed its doors to the outside world

and only traded with them Dutch and

Chinese. The Powhatan wasn't the first

boat from the Japanese that came to

our San Francisco, it was another boat

called the Kanrin Maru. The Powhatan

came twelve days later.

When these good people came to

our San Francisco, we all saw it. They

wore dresses I think, which might seem

weird. This could possibly their thing,

men in Japan wear dresses. This tells all

of us that the Japanese are different but

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...Japanese are different but we should respect them all, because we are

America, our proud and free country. And this is a really big mark in history of

America; we will be able to trade with the Japanese now! Another ally to our

country! We give them our goods and they give us their goods. We learn their

way of life and we learn their way of life. Some people say that these Japanese

are savages and they call them "dog - eaters". We shouldn't say such insults to

them; I bet they are civil just like all of us.

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Should America Trade with Japan?

Some people have very different opinions if Japanese should trade with

America. Jimmy here thinks that Japanese are diseases. He said, “We know that

the Japanese were pretty strong during that time, but still, the Americans

threaten the Japanese to open their doors and trade with the other countries. This

shows how weak they are to be threatened so easily. We don’t know who they

are, what they do, what they think of us, and how come they closed their doors

on us. We know nothing of them.”

Albert on the other hand says, “I think America and Japanese should

trade. This will help us gain money easier because we have another country to

trade with. I have never seen the Japanese’s goods and having their goods here

in America; we might be able to learn something from them and help improve

our society. We might even learn some of their ways of life and we can use it for

our lives. If they could live their lives closed out to other countries, we might be

able to learn how they did it.”

Sandy also having the same opinion said, “The American and Japanese

should open up trade because Japanese have good quality items for daily life

use. Japanese have very good ideas in saving water, money, and items. Japanese

people’s houses are very clean and recycle a lot, if we open trade with them, we

might be able to learn from them. If American open trade with Japan we can be able to earn

much more money.” Currently a lot of people think that opening trade with the Japanese is

a good idea, it is an obvious advantage for America to trade with the Japanese, because we

will opened up to a whole new view that no one else have seen.

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