Created: March 2012 Total running time: 15m59s
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- Prologue: The roots of the Shosha are the Kameyama Shachu established by Ryoma Sakamoto at the end of Japan’s isolation during the late Edo period
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- Black ships suddenly appear. The Shogunate is threatened with invasion if they do not open Japan to trade.
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- Earn money through trading to build a navy that can stand up to Western powers!
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- Ryoma Sakamoto founds “Kameyama Shachu” in Kameyama, Nagasaki – the first trading company by private Japanese citizens.
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- Japan will not change unless the Tokugawa Shogunate is overthrown. Ryoma brings the rival Choshu and Satsuma Domains together through trade, working to achieve a change.
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- Keeping Ryoma’s ideas and the spirit of Kameyama Shachu alive