was a result of the anger Japanese people had of the western invasion, economic crisis, and abuses of their shogunate rulers.
             "In 1853 a fleet of U.S. warships steamed into Tokyo Bay and demanded permission to establish trade and diplomatic relations with Japan." This event is considered by John Whitney Hall to be critical to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan. "The nineteenth century "Western impact" on Japan led first to the opening of the country to foreign commerce and then in 1868 to the end of the Tokugawa hegemony." According to Hall, "the western pressure was acutely felt first as a threat to national security and secondly as a stimulus to reform". The Japanese at the time felt that seclusion from foreign policies was good because they needed nothing from the western nations. They also feared that the western nations would invade their nation and colonize their territory. The Japanese knew what happened to the Chinese and how they were forced to sign unequal treaties during the Opium Wars. For these reasons the people of Japan saw this western invasion as dangerous for their country and they blamed the Tokugawa Shogunate for being we
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