Word: uraga
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...same query. Japan had, after all, shuttered itself. Surely not everyone wanted to "open" the country following the appearance of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's "black ships" off Uraga...
...facet rubbing against and invisibly changing the other, but never allowed quite to melt into one pattern. This frictional interplay was going on long before the Americans arrived with their atomic bombs, occupation army and MacArthur's new constitution. For 70 remarkable years after Commodore Perry steamed into Uraga Harbor, Japan, under the enlightened reign of Emperor Meiji, force-fed itself on all the Western notions, inventions, techniques and customs it could absorb...
...summer day in 1853, the port of Uraga was decked in holiday style. Brightly painted, flag-festooned screens lined the shore of lower Tokyo Bay. Soldiers paraded in burnished armor. Elegant emissaries of the Mikado in exquisite brocades, and velvets turned out to greet Commodore Matthew Perry as he debarked from the U.S. man-o'-war Susquehanna...
Last week a drab and depressed Uraga had a harbor reception of a different kind. The arriving travelers were 336 Japanese men, women & children-diplomats, businessmen and newspapermen returning home with their families from foreign posts. From the decks of the rusty old Tsukushi Mam, they gazed glumly at the panorama of defeat. On the pier was a delegation of U.S. Eighth Army personnel. As the sullen repatriates debarked, they were hustled to the customs shed. There, teams of doctors, officers and G.I.s (for the men) and nurses, WACs and female Nisei (for the women) stripped them, ripped their clothing...
...invasion proceeded with machine-like precision. Transport planes floated down on the airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...