Mayor of Port Orford (Peace is Better)

The mayor of Port Orford, Jefferson, greeted Japanese visitor Nobuo Fujita in 1962. Fujita presented to the mayor his family's four-centuries-old samurai sword as contrition for his World War II-era act of bombing the town, 20 years earlier. However, seven years later, in 1969 Fujita decided to settle in the town and open a car dealership. The mayor returned the sword to Fujita at this time.