Nagasaki Naval Training Center

[1] During the Bakumatsu period, the Japanese government faced increasing incursions by ships from the Western world, intent on ending the country's two centuries of isolationist foreign policy.

These efforts cumulated in the landing of United States commodore Matthew Perry in 1854, resulting in the Treaty of Kanagawa and the opening of Japan to foreign trade.

The students gradually overcame language and other barriers and learned various modern naval skills and marine technology and organization .

[2] Under the guidance of Dutch instructors, the Shogunate built a factory for the repair of naval ships as a part of the School's supporting facilities.

Although the Nagasaki Naval Training Center was short-lived, it had considerable direct and indirect influence on future Japanese society.