A descendant of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of “Black Ships” fame visited a distant island south of Tokyo carrying a pocket watch that the U.S. naval officer had with him when he dropped ...

One of these enemies-turned-allies is the stalwart US Commodore from the Black Ship, Matthew Perry. These are some of the most formidable foes you will encounter in Rise of the Ronin. Matthew ...

However, the actions of the Navy during one of the most formative events in Japanese history -- the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's black ships -- ultimately had a butterfly effect on its ...

“As a descendant of Commodore Perry, I have been very interested in the descendants of Nathaniel Savory.” The commodore led his fleet of “Black Ships” to Uraga at the entrance to Tokyo Bay ...

History changed when Columbus’s caravels reached the West Indies, Darwin’s HMS Beagle landed on the Galapagos Islands and Commodore Perry’s Black Ships neared Edo. The Suiso Frontier ...