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U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Akasaka Palace in May 2022. International relations between Japan and the United States began in the late 18th and early 19th century with the diplomatic but force-backed missions of U.S. ship captains James Glynn and Matthew C. Perry to the Tokugawa shogunate.
Japan and the United States have held formal international relations since the mid-19th century. The first encounter between the two countries to be recorded in official documents occurred in 1791 when the Lady Washington became the first American ship to visit Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to sell sea otter pelts.
The 1940 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of 7.6 percent over the 1930 population of 122,775,046 people. The census date of record was April 1, 1940.
Photos, from left to right, of Japanese agents Ralph Townsend, Frederick Vincent Williams, and David Warren Ryder. The Japanese Committee on Trade and Information was a Japanese-run propaganda organization that was active in the United States between 1937 and 1940.
The Hull note, officially the Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan, was the final proposal delivered to the Empire of Japan by the United States of America before the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) and the Japanese declaration of war (seven and a half hours after the attack began).
Population density map of the Empire of Japan (1920) Population density map of the Empire of Japan (1940) 1920 Commemorative stamp for 1st national census of the Empire of Japan Japanese policemen circa 1875 Jiichiro Matsumoto, a Japanese politician, leader of the Burakumin liberation movement Native Micronesian constables of Truk Island, circa 1930 Photograph of Atayal men in 1900
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Japan reacted by forging an alliance with Germany and Italy in 1940, known as the Tripartite Pact, which worsened its relations with the US. In July 1941, the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands froze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments—Japan had little oil of its own.