Yokohama's population of 3.7 million makes it Japan's largest city after the Special Wards of Tokyo. Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city following the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century, and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo, and Chiba.

Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the feudal Edo period, when Japan held a policy of national seclusion, having little contact with foreigners. A major turning point in Japanese history happened in 185354, when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships, demanding that Japan open several ports for commerce, and the Tokugawa shogunate agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity.

It was initially agreed that one of the ports to be opened to foreign ships would be the bustling town of Kanagawa-juku (in what is now Kanagawa Ward) on the Tokaido, a strategic highway that linked Edo to Kyoto and Osaka. However, the Tokugawa shogunate decided that Kanagawa-juku was too close to the Tokaido for comfort, and port facilities were instead built across the inlet in the sleepy fishing village of Yokohama. The Port of Yokohama was officially opened on June 2, 1859.

Answer this series of questions:

1. What is the largest city in Japan?
2. What's the second?
3. What's the population?
4. Is it landlocked?
5. Does it have any major ports?
6. Like what?
7. When was the Port of Yokohama opened?
8. What peroid signaled the end of the small fishing village status?
9. What did he do?
10. Was this met with resistance?
11. What happened?
12. Where was the port initially meant for?
13. Did it go by another name?
14. What water body would the port have been on?
15. What is that?
16. Why wasn't it built there?
17. When did Japan become less isolated?
18. What other major ports are there?
19. Which is the largest?
20. Tokyo is the largest port or city?

Numbered answers:
1. the Special Wards of Tokyo
2. Yokohama
3. 3.7 million
4. no
5. yes
6. port facilities were instead built across the inlet in the sleepy fishing village of Yokohama
7. June 2, 1859
8. in 185354, when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships
9. demanded that Japan open several ports for commerce
10. no
11. the Tokugawa shogunate agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity
12. Kanagawa-juku
13. Kanagawa Ward
14. the Tokaido
15. a strategic highway that linked Edo to Kyoto and Osaka
16. the Tokugawa shogunate decided that Kanagawa-juku was too close to the Tokaido for comfort
17. in the mid-19th century
18. Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo, and Chiba.
19. Tokyo
20. both