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Show Marines Celebrate Second Jap Landing When the Japanese capitulated, thus ending World War II, the U. S. Marines, who were scheduled to spearhead the assault on the enemy's home island, participated in the occupation of Japan, thus making their second visit to Nippon within the century. Leatherneck veterans of the Fourth Marine Regiment (upper right) are shown occupying occupy-ing the Japanese Naval Base at Yokosuka, on 30 August 1945. The earlier landing of th U. S. Marines on Japan took place In 1853, when Commodore Matthew C. Perry, accompanied by a detachment of Marines from the ships of his squadron, squad-ron, under the command of Major Jacob Zeilin, who was later appointed commandant of the Marine Corps by President Abraham Lincoln, visited Japanese officials. The landing was made at Uraga and Major Zeilin had the distinction of being the second American to set foot on Japanese soil. The lithograph (lower left) depicting this landing was copied from an historic volume published In 1857. |