Will this be an episode that will surprise you with the hidden truth of history?

The Yokohama Port Opening Museum (Naka-ku, Yokohama), a museum that conveys the great historical turning point of Japan's opening up to the world, will be featured in the documentary program "The Backyard: Exploring the Hidden Side of the Labyrinth of Knowledge," which will be broadcast on NHK Educational TV from 10:00 p.m. on July 16th.

The reporter for this program is Bibiru Oki, who loves the history of the late Edo period. After touring the exhibition on the history of the late Edo period and the Meiji period, we went to the backstage area. The first thing we saw was the real lithograph of "Commodore Perry's Landing in Yokohama," a familiar sight from textbooks. The detailed depiction reveals unexpected details of this historic moment.

Furthermore, a surprising fact about Japan-U.S. relations emerges from a photograph taken at the end of the Edo period in what is now Hama-rikyu Gardens. This episode will give you a surprising glimpse into the history of how Japan has changed dramatically in its relations with the outside world.