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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 had its origins in 1853 when Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay. By doing so America forced Japan, then a reclusive feudal state, to open the country to trade which led to an inevitable battle for hegemony in the Pacific with the United States. What do you think?’

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