Za577 The Naval Academy duplicate of the original bell returned to Japan by the U. S. Navy. From the essay, page 41.
Perhaps the most notable of bells brought to the U.S. as a product of war were those taken from Japan. The first was by Commodore Perry brought back from his Japan Expedition in 1854, a large bell made in 1456 that was displayed on the United States Naval Academy campus and for over a century has been rung to celebrate important Midshipmen athletic victories. In 1987 it was returned to the Prefecture of Okinawa as “a gesture of goodwill” and an identical substitute given to the Academy by Japan. Like the original it is now in place in front of Bancroft Hall and struck heartedly to celebrate athletic victory. The 1456 bell was considered important for cultural and historical reasons by this late enemy and was personally presented to Okinawa’s Shuri Historical
Museum by U.S. Marine Corps officer, Vietnam veteran, then Secretary of the Navy, and later Senator, James Webb. From the essay, page 40.