Yet, unlike Commodore Perry, Japan could not visit Washington with physical arms to force the United States from retreating into its own version of a 21st century sakoku. Instead, just like their ...

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from ...

Israel's 77th year finds it grappling with internal divisions over judicial reform, war, and national identity, yet is still ...

Everybody was kung fu fighting Those cats were fast as lightning In fact, it was a little bit frightening But they fought wit ...

As a gift from Japan to Providence, two of these statues were installed, one being in the garden, in 1954 to commemorate the centennial of Commodore Perry’s mission, which opened Japan to the ...

By the same token, the Japanese ought to commemorate the arrival of Commodore Perry on their shores, and the Chinese the seizure of Hong Kong. Yet as we have hinted, a lack of self-awareness and ...

On his first and only visit to Japan, in the late fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, like almost every Westerner who ever set foot there, was wowed by the beauty of the country and the refinement of ...

The "Mississippi," the flag-steamship of Commodore Perry, in the Japan Expedition was built in 1840, at the Navy Yard, in Philadelphia, and her engines were constructed by Merrick & Town ...