After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic ...

The Asian ally is reportedly considering lending its technological capabilities to the missile-defense project in hopes of ...

Shimoda is a historic port town in the southern part of the Izu Peninsula. It was opened to foreign trade in 1854 following the signing of the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity. With its warm climate ...

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. Perry’s arrival not ...

United States president Woodrow Wilson smiles as he leads the procession that followed the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Although Wilson personally negotiated the treaty, it was never ...

He was hastened back by the knowledge that Russian Vice Admiral Putyatin had spent a month in Nagasaki successfully attempting to reach a similar deal as Perry, the result was the Treaty of Shimoda in ...

A court ruling contributing to this treaty came half a century earlier. It was handed down in the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 7, 1963, in what was known as the "Shimoda case." It was the first ...

In 1915, Mongolia, China and Russia signed the Treaty of Kyakhta, which made Mongolia an autonomous ... Japanese deputy foreign minister Takeso Shimoda was asked about the issue when he visited Taiwan ...

The agreement Perry eventually reached with the Japanese, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty, effectively ended more than two centuries of Japan’s isolationist policy and opened Shimoda and ...

But he is a hero in Japan; his two residences—the consulate at Shimoda and the legation at ... 1858 negotiated the first effective commercial treaty between the U. S. and Japan—a feat which ...