Matthew Calbraith Perry arrived at Uraga, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1853 to break open the then-closed-to-foreigners Japan. His arrival eventually caused the Meiji Revolution that ended the samurai era.
More than one-and-a-half centuries later, the origin of American football meets the culture of samurai when the Ivy-Samurai Bowl takes place at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday.
The game will be played to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Kanto Collegiate Football League. The Kanto collegiate players will combine with former Yale University and Harvard University players to compete in the game.