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Why did the United States government send Commodore Perry to Japan?
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Why did the United States government send Commodore Perry to Japan?

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The biggest reason that the United States sent Matthew Perry to Japan was to use it as a "coaling base" or a base where steamships, which used coal, could restock their coal supply.
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