An odd anniversary: 1858. One assumes heavily cursing riveters from the Clyde [ Glasgow ] and some of the other steel ship making ports of the British Isles descended on Japan copiously drinking whisky and playing football and golf, to instruct on the art of hammering metal plates.
How did the natives react to these muscular wee loons shouting and praying to their strange presbyterian God ?
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And now, according to Wiki, America has reserved seven berths of Mizuho Pier to itself, 'United States Forces Japan'. I had no idea such a thing existed.
[ COMUSJAPAN, under COMUSINDOPACOM --- with the JGSDF, JASDF, JMSDF etc. to act as Janissaries to the imperial power: some countries do love their acronyms. ]
