How would you explain and justify the Japanese seclusion policy to President Fillmore

Seclusion policy (Sakoku) or the Policy of national seclusion is a Japanese foreign policy. This policy was contacted with the Western nation and was limited to Dutch. This term came to end in the Edo period.

Perry from the U. S made his ships into the harbor at Tokyo in 1853 for re-establishment of commercial relations between Japan and Western traders. President Millard Fillmore in 1853 made an expedition of naval to Japan for the return of shipwrecked and request Americans to stranded in Japan return to the United States.

As the United States had the power to defeat Japan through firepower and the Japanese had no navy to defend themselves so they had to agree.