Held this year from May 16 to 18, an event to the south of Tokyo turns a historical episode of national humiliation into a ...

Commodore Matthew Perry may not have enjoyed the same level of prestige as his older brother Oliver Hazard Perry, who famously defeated the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War ...

One of the gifts from U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858)--who visited Japan in the so-called Black Ships in 1853--aroused particular curiosity among the Japanese: a miniature steam ...

Kondo said, “I’m really happy that I received words of thanks from a descendant of Commodore Perry.” Takashi said that he’s looking forward to Matthew’s visit to Chichijima. In an ...