11-21-2007: Assignment ; What If?

If Mr. Mattew Perry, who was Fleet Admiral in the US, had not come to Uraga, a coast area near Yokohama in Japan, in 1853 to force Japanese government to open the market to trade each other, Japanese economy and industry would not have developed like today for the follwing reasons. First, Japanese could not have learned western technology easily, because the Japanese government did not opened its market except to the Netherlands in that era. Second, Japanse would not have placed so much emphasis on its economy and industry like today, because Japan was a hierarhical society in that era and marchants were regarded as the lowest class.

On the other hand, if Perry had not come to Japan and Japan had not opened its market, Japan would not have experienced any Word War and East Asian area would have kept peace still now.

Finally, if Perry had not come to Japan, I would be a farmar now despite I come to the US.