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The U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) pulled into the port of Shimoda, Japan, May 18, to celebrate the 78th annual Black Ship Festival.
The festival commemorates the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and his ‘Black Ships’ in July 1853, and the signing of the Japan-American Treaty of Trade and Amity on June 17, 1854. The events opened Japan’s borders to trade and fostered relations with the United States.
“It is absolutely a great honor to be a part of Shimoda’s Black Ship Festival,” said Cmdr. Warren Smith, commanding officer of Mustin.
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