It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two ...

It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two ...

NEW YORK -- In the sesquicentennial of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry’s visit to Japan, I am happy to imagine that I must be one of the few owners of the original edition of his report: “Narrative of ...

A descendant of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of “Black Ships” fame visited a distant island south of Tokyo carrying a pocket watch that the U.S. naval officer had with him when he dropped anchor there ...

Shinichi Miyai holds a stew pot thought to be once owned by U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2023. (Mainichi/Toshiaki Hashimoto) ...

Brown University Library. “Matthew Calbraith Perry.” Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History, n.d. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/japan/perrybio.html Gray, Asa, et. al ...

Handel’s funeral march, played on fife and drum, echoes through the streets of Hakodate. It is 1854, and two of US Commodore Matthew Perry’s crew, 50-year-old James Wolfe and 19-year-old George Remick ...

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) not only began a tradition of “gunboat diplomacy” so often associated with mid-nineteenth century American expansionism, it also ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima -- Three seals thought to have been used by a high official of the Tokugawa shogunate at the time U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry came to Japan have been discovered, it was ...

Matthew Calbraith Perry plans to visit a far-flung island south of Tokyo where his famed namesake ancestor gave a 31-star U.S. flag to an American immigrant some 170 years ago. The 80-year-old hopes ...

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