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

Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay in 1853, he changed the course ...

For over six decades, the treaty has stood as a rare testament to the resilience of rules-based diplomacy in South Asia. However, amid escalating tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad ...

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 ...

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 ...