Japan allowed U.S. nuclear-armed warships to call at its ports without prior consultation in a secret agreement during Cold War negotiations leading to a revision to the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty in 1960, U.S. documents show.
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Descendants of 1860 samurai delegation to US donate English panel for Tokyo monument The Mainichi
TOKYO A group of descendants of 77 samurai who joined the first Japanese diplomatic delegation to the United States in 1860 has donated to the Japanese capital a panel bearing the English translation of a monument commemorating the historic mission.
The newly set up bronze panel stands in front of a decades-old, Japanese-inscribed monument at Shiba Park in Tokyo s Minato Ward, which was erected in 1960 to mark the centennial of the so-called Japanese embassy s journey to America. The stone monument introduces the delegation, sent by the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868), as being entrusted with the mission to exchange instruments of ratification of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Amity and Commerce, as it made a voyage across the Pacific aboard the USS Powhatan.