At a working lunch here Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin charmed the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a vintage wine and caviar. Was it the beginning of a new thaw in ...

Japan and the former Soviet Union restored diplomatic relations a decade after World War II, but a dispute over a cluster of islands kept them from signing a peace treaty. Russian President ...

SHIMODA, Japan — Parades, ... Matthew Perry’s arrival in July 1853 and the subsequent signing — under the threat of force — of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity.

This led to the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 and later the Treaty of Shimoda, which granted the U.S. access to Japanese ports and set the stage for Japan’s modernization.

Less than 40 years after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan began to rapidly modernize, it defeated Russia, one of the world’s great powers, in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5.

Negotiations between the two sides began in Yokohama on March 8, and the Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity was signed on March 31. ... Fleet moves from Shimoda to Naha. July 17: ...

Perry’s move forced the isolated Japan to sign the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity in 1854, opening the country to trade and diplomatic relations. This was the 65th annual Black Ship Festival.

In 1854, one year after the first visit to Japan by Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy, a Russian frigate named Diana anchored off Shimoda on the Izu Peninsula southwest of Tokyo.

The Shimoda Treaty, an appendix to the 1854 Japan-U.S. Treaty of Peace and Amity, was also signed at this Buddhist temple. Uematsu, the fourth-generation proprietor of Mimatsu Zushi, ...