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What did Perry request from the Japanese emperor, pertaining to military and trade agreements?

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On July 14 he presented his papers, including a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the Japanese emperor, requesting protection for shipwrecked American seamen, the right to buy coal, and the opening of one or more ports to trade.

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