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More and more ports were opened to foreign trade, and the Japanese were obliged to accept low import tariffs.
The ports are within hiking distance of several beautiful beaches, and within a one-hour hike of each other on a marked trail.
From April through to October, literally dozens of sightseeing craft from Boston and other ports scattered along the New England coast head out to an area known as Stellwagen Bank, where whales stock up on plankton and fish before migrating to warmer Caribbean climes.
The islands are now invaded by modern royalty like Claudia Schiffer, Michael Douglas, as well as princes and their paramours who anchor their yachts in the ports and evade the paparazzi.
The WP front page reports that the agreement to loosen up Japanese port procedures for U.S. vessels worked out on Friday with Japanese shipping companies under the threat of banning them from U.S. ports is widely believed by American trade officials and experts to demonstrate that every so often, to achieve trade fairness, Tokyo must be "hit with the economic equivalent of a two-by-four."