Uematsu supports the part-time chefs by taking charge of procurement and preparation of ingredients behind the scenes. The ...

China’s “century of humiliation,” as President Xi Jinping likes to call it, arrived by sea, with foreign merchant vessels ...

Abigail Koontz. the curator for the Washington County Historical Society, details the history behind the Miller House on West ...

The quaint, traditional townscape makes Hagi a joy for sightseers as well as Japanese history buffs ... the arrival of Black Ships of US Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853, was quick to adopt ...

referring to U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet that pressured Japan to open to the rest of the world in the mid-19th century.

Feb. 6 - After Commodore Perry and the U.S. fleet opened Japan to the outside world in 1853, an American sailor stationed in the country could hire a "comfort wife" and a house for about $35 a month.

The Medal of Honor, the United States’ highest award for valor in the face of the enemy, was established during the Civil War ...

For approximately 260 years during the Edo period, Japan maintained a policy of isolation and built a relatively stable society. However, the arrival of Commodore Perry’s Black Ships in 1853 catalyzed ...

In 1853, he served on the U.S.S. Southampton (Virginia) as a part of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry’s trade expedition to Japan. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, he resigned his commission ...