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MIT Visualizing Cultures
Division of Education Programs
![Commodore Perry's Blackship, USS Powhatan](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2019-10/USS-Powhatan.jpg?itok=gLVrk7hW)
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Commodore Perry's Blackship, USS Powhatan.
Courtesy of Associated Press
![Commodore Perry's Blackship, USS Powhatan](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2019-10/USS-Powhatan.jpg?itok=gLVrk7hW)
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Commodore Perry's Blackship, USS Powhatan.
Courtesy of Associated Press
Learn about Commodore Perry, the opening of Japan, and the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War through images from the period.