The Kanagawa treaty became a significant causative factor leading to serious internal conflicts within Japan — an upheaval which was only resolved in 1867 with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the beginning of the Meiji Restoration.

They were charged with overseeing trade and diplomatic relations with foreign countries, and were based in the treaty ports of Nagasaki and Kanagawa ( Yokohama ).

He resigned all government posts in May 1896 and moved to Ōiso, Kanagawa, where he wrote his personal diplomatic memoirs Kenkenroku ( 蹇蹇録 ) after the treaty was signed to explain his views and actions.

During the Bakumatsu period, Kurihama in southern Miura Peninsula was the location of the first landing of American Commodore Matthew C. Perry and his fleet of black ships in 1853, which led eventually to the Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened Sagami to foreign visitation and led to the rapid development of Yokohama as a treaty port.

The party had departed the treaty port of Yokohama at 2: 30 pm by boat, crossing Yokohama harbour to Kanagawa village, to meet up with their horses, which had been sent ahead.

The treaty followed the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa, which granted coaling rights for U. S. ships and allowed for a U. S. Consul in Shimoda.

In the Bakumatsu Period, the signing of the Kanagawa Treaty provided for the opening of treaty ports, and the area of what is now central Naka Ward was designated as open to foreign settlement in 1859.

He was born in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa.

It was also The Great Wave print that initially received, and continues to receive, acclaim and popularity in the Western world. The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai's most famous print, the first in the series 36 Views of Mount Fuji

Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on 8 January 1942, Koizumi was educated at Yokosuka High School and Keio University, where he studied economics.

In the general elections of December 1972, Koizumi was elected as a member of the Lower House for the Kanagawa 11th district.

He was born in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and studied at Nihon University's College of Art.

Katayama joined the Japan Socialist Party and was elected to the House of Representatives, representing Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1930.

After two centuries, the seclusion policy, or Sakoku, under the shoguns of the Edo period came to an end when the country was forced open to trade by the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.

Shimaki lived in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture from 1937, and was part of a social and literary circle which included Kawabata Yasunari, Kobayashi Hideo and Takami Jun.

Shunryu Suzuki ( 鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆, often called Suzuki Roshi ) ( born May 18, 1904, Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan ; died December 4, 1971 in San Francisco, CA, USA ) was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Buddhist monastery outside Asia ( Tassajara Zen Mountain Center ).

During the Bakumatsu period, Shimoda port was opened to American trade under the conditions of the Convention of Kanagawa, negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry and signed on March 31, 1854.

Ashigara Prefecture was divided between Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures in 1876.

Hakodate was Japan's first city whose port was opened to foreign trade in 1854 as a result of Convention of Kanagawa, and used to be the most important port in northern Japan.

The port of Hakodate was surveyed by a fleet of five U. S. ships in 1854 under the conditions of the Convention of Kanagawa, as negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry.

was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Prefecture, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture.

It was built by Colonel Kanagawa Kosaku of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942 to arouse nationalistic sentiment among the Mongols.

After the Meiji Restoration, the arsenal was taken over by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the area of modern Yokosuka was reorganized into Uraga Town and numerous villages within Miura District, Kanagawa Prefecture.

The Keihin Industrial Zone was built on reclaimed land in Kanagawa Prefecture to the west of Tokyo.

In July 8, 1853, when Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships arrived to force the opening of Japan, Manjirō became an interpreter and translator for the Shogunate and was instrumental in negotiating the Convention of Kanagawa.

The following year the Tokugawa shogunate was forced to accept the American demands after signing the Convention of Kanagawa.

In middle ages, Kawaguchi was part of Musashi province, which included entire Saitama, Tokyo, and part of Kanagawa prefecture.

The arrival of Matthew Perry in 1853 and the subsequent Convention of Kanagawa forcibly reintroduced Japan to the outside world ; the rapid modernization of the Meiji Restoration soon followed.

The Sakaigawa runs directly from the mountains between Machida and Hachioji, and for quite some distance forms the border between the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and Kanagawa Prefecture, but from Machida City centre the river can be directly followed by a foot and cycle path all the way to Fujisawa City centre, a distance of approximately 35 kilometers.

After the Meiji Restoration, the 26 hamlets in the area consolidated into the villages of Fussa, Kumagawa and Tama within the short-lived Shinagawa Prefecture, followed by Kanagawa Prefecture.

For example, in May 2005, a particular parlor in Kanagawa prefecture reported to the local police that someone had counterfeited their tokens and made off with the equivalent of US $ 60, 000 in cash by trading them in at their nearby exchange center.

* Kanagawa hemolysin, a toxin produced by the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus

In 1335, Hōjō Tokiyuki, son of last regent Takatoki, tried to re-establish the shogunate by force and defeated Kamakura's de-facto ruler Ashikaga Tadayoshi in Musashi, in today's Kanagawa prefecture.

Porters at a ford on the Sakawa River, near Odawara, Kanagawa | Odawara, Japan, by Felice Beato, between 1863 and 1885.

The Great Wave at Kanagawa Carved by Hokusai.

The northern and north-western border lines with Gunma Prefecture are marked by the Tone River and the Kanagawa River and the drainage divides of the Arakawa River and Kanagawa River.

Yamanashi Prefecture is bordered by Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Shizuoka, and Nagano.

* The International organisation founded by the late Goro Hatakeyama, 9th Dan ( 17 August 1928-8 December 2009 ), former head instructor under the late Yoshio Sugino, headquartered in his Yokohama Dojo ( Kanagawa, Japan ).

In the course of the same year Hōjō Tokiyuki, son of last regent Takatoki, tried to re-establish the shogunate by force and defeated Tadayoshi in Musashi, in today's Kanagawa prefecture.

Many of Yokosuka's public high schools, including Yokosuka High School, are operated by the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education.

It is surrounded by the Bōsō Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture to the east and the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture to the west.

On September 17 and September 18, 2011 at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Sakuraba and his band joined up with the Earthbound Papas, led by famous video game composer Nobuo Uematsu, to perform at Fantasy Rock Fest 2011.

It became a Japanese national university in 1949 by the amalgamation of Kanagawa Normal School, Kanagawa Youth Normal School, Yokohama College of Economics and the Yokohama Institute of Technology.

Parts of the city were transferred to Kanagawa Prefecture by the next year step by step.