A descendant of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of “Black Ships ... in Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1853. The bottom of the gold case is inscribed “Japan 1852,” marking the year his namesake ...

If the Perrys of Newport had been professional wrestlers, they would have been the tag team champs of the 19th century. It is ...

Matthew Calbraith Perry plans to visit a far-flung ... to Uraga at the entrance to Tokyo Bay in 1853 and played a key role in opening Japan to the West after a national isolation policy of more ...