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 ...

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 ...

Commodore Matthew Perry may not have enjoyed the same level ... Perry’s fleet of four black iron-hulled, steam-powered ships ...