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1853
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Commodore Mathew Perry forces Japan to open for trade with the West
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1876
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A typical Japanese home is built for Japan for the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia
Claude Monet (1840-1920), La Japonaise
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1876-77
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Harmony In Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room
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1885
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Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado opens in London
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1925
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Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), wins one of the newly established Guggenheim Fellowships. He is detained in an internment camp for seven months after a voluntary visit. Colleagues and associates include:
| Rockefeller Center |
Martha Graham |
| George Balanchine |
Igor Stravinsky |
| William Butler Yeats |
Ezra Pound |
| Alfred Stieglitz |
Peggy Guggenheim |
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1942
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Executive Order 9066 clears the way for the mass evacuation from the West Coast and internment of all people of Japanese descent
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1976
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Executive Order 9066 is rescinded
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1997
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Takashi Murakami (1962- ), The Kings Sect of Two Dimension
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