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

was presented with a replica of the Stars and Stripes flag that his ancestor received from Matthew Perry (1794-1858), commodore of the U.S. Navy who visited the island in 1853. The original flag ...

Commodore Matthew Perry may not have enjoyed the ... The urgent request sought delivery of the flag from Perry’s 1853 Tokyo expedition to the Missouri as soon as possible. While the details ...