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Article: Made in Japan, Seen in D.C.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 12, 1996
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In spring Washington's thoughts turn to Japan, the country
with which the United States has had a special, if sometimes
strained, relationship since 1854, when Commodore Matthew Perry
forced the isolated nation to open its ports. Today Perry provides
the name for an Adams-Morgan restaurant and Pat Buchanan might
prefer that Yokohama were still closed to American trade. But
Washington's particular tie to Japan really dates to 1912, the year
that Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki presented 3,000 cherry trees to the
capital.
The National Cherry Blossom Festival will culminate this
weekend, regardless of the condition of the notoriously delicate and
recalcitrant blossoms, which are supposed to have ...