Breaking Open JapanFeifer, George. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006. pp. xx, 389 p.: ill., maps; 24cm. ISBN: 0060884320 (hardcover: alkaline paper). Format: Book. Subjects: Japan Foreign Relations United States /United States Foreign Relations Japan.2. A statement about the author: George Feifer is originally from Roxbury, Connecticut. He has written for a wide range of publications. He is a “well-known” and veteran author with many best-selling books. Some of the books he wrote are "Our Homeland", "Justice in Moscow", "Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa", "Goodbye to Moscow", "Message from Moscow" and last but not least "The girl from Petrovka” which eventually became a Hollywood film United/Japan; American warship in Japanese port; Commodore Perry, Lord Abe and American imperialism in 1853.4. The story is about one of the most sensational cultural and political events in history warships of the American East Asia Squadron anchored at Uraga, before dawn on July 14, 1853. This is twenty-seven miles south of the Japanese capital, also known as Edo (renamed Tokyo in 1868). guard against the fact that people from the “most remote regions” of the earth were “incapable of doing good things,” in Japan. The recent Mexican-Spanish War sharpened Americans' desire to exploit their wealth and power for political and commercial benefit. For all... half of the paper... I wrote it, if there had not been such good material and insights, the text was so changeable that I would not have finished the book. The dangling ideas, that is, concepts introduced but not explained and sooner or later followed up, were annoying. Then there are a lot of difficult sentences and then some grammatical aspects that have to be ignored to grasp the meaning. An example of a dangling idea was the paragraph that ended by saying that Abe Mashihiro had achieved a major victory in appointing his recommended defense advisor, followed by a paragraph that said the appointee was "his (Abe's) more explicit critic". What did I miss? The concept of an Abe victory landing a critic an influential position is never clear. It may be that the author intended to imply in the broader circumstance that through this nomination there was no war, but this is not clear either.