The event commemorates Commodore 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. Events included a ...

“Today’s important because it helps cement the connection between Japan and the United States, really when it first started back in the days of Commodore Perry,” Lahti told Stars and Stripes ...

Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When ...

Bremyer undertook a 124-hour, 9,000-mile journey to Tokyo Bay, where he delivered the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to Admiral William ... the official Japanese surrender on ...