# Highlights of Japan-U.S. Relationship: History, Cultural Exchange and Future Development

The Asian Division hosted a symposium featuring discussion on the "Highlights of Japan-U.S. Relationship: History, Cultural Exchange and Future Development." This symposium illuminates the long-standing exchanges between Japan and the United States that have brought the two countries to the strong partnership enjoyed today. Three speakers share the highlights of cultural exchange between the two countries that began some 154 years ago with the 1853 arrival in Japan of the U.S. naval ships commanded by Commodore Matthew Perry, followed by the signing of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity in 1854. The esteemed speakers included in this symposium are the Honorable Norman Mineta, Violinist Midori Goto and Professors Naoyuki Agawa and Michael Auslin.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2007
- By: Library Of Congress. Asian Division
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687822/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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