🔴 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 **On This Day: The Convention of Kanagawa Is Signed**

On 31st March 1854 the United States forced the Tokugawa Shogunate to open access of two Japanese ports (Shimoda and Hakodate) to American trade and vessels.

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