'Black ship' replica visits Japan

The Pride of Baltimore II, a replica of a ''black ship''similar to one used by U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry in the 1850s, enters Osaka Bay in western Japan on June 21 as part of an around-the-world goodwill voyage. Perry sailed into Japan in 1853 to end more than 200 years of Japanese isolation.

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