By YUMI NAKAYAMA/ Staff Writer
January 22, 2023 at 07:00 JST
From right, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Takashi Savory, Kyo Nakahama, a fifth-generation descendant of John Manjiro, the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, and Scott Whitfield, a sixth-generation descendant of Captain Whitfield who rescued Manjiro when he was marooned off Japan’s coast and brought him back with him to the United States (Yumi Nakayama)
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 anchor there nearly 170 years ago. [Read More]
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