Picture of the Month: March 2020



Shimoda at the tip of the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture is famous as a port where U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry
called with the 'black ships', including this one the Susquehanna, which put pressure on Japan to open up to the outside
This replica is outside the local Izukyu railway station.

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