What is the largest city in Japan?
the Special Wards of Tokyo
What's the second?
Yokohama
What's the population?
3.7 million
Is it landlocked?
no
Does it have any major ports?
yes
Like what?
port facilities were instead built across the inlet in the sleepy fishing village of Yokohama
When was the Port of Yokohama opened?
June 2, 1859
What peroid signaled the end of the small fishing village status?
in 1853–54, when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships
What did he do?
demanded that Japan open several ports for commerce
Was this met with resistance?
no
What happened?
the Tokugawa shogunate agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity
Where was the port initially meant for?
Kanagawa-juku
Did it go by another name?
Kanagawa Ward
What water body would the port have been on?
the Tōkaidō
What is that?
a strategic highway that linked Edo to Kyoto and Osaka
Why wasn't it built there?
the Tokugawa shogunate decided that Kanagawa-juku was too close to the Tōkaidō for comfort
When did Japan become less isolated?
in the mid-19th century
What other major ports are there?
Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo, and Chiba.
Which is the largest?
Tokyo
Tokyo is the largest port or city?
both