This fall, Wareham will strengthen a bond with Kushimoto, Japan that was forged 225 years ago.

On Tuesday, Wareham Historical Society President Angela Dunham told Selectmen she will travel to Kushimoto in November as a “goodwill ambassador.”

The trip will cap a year of festivities that celebrated the 225th anniversary of Wareham’s own Captain John Kendrick making landfall in Kushimoto. Kendrick’s journey occurred nearly 60 years before U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry used gunboat diplomacy to force trade with isolationist Japan in 1853.

Scott Ridley, author of “Morning of Fire: John Kendrick’s Daring American Odyssey in the Pacific,” will join Dunham in Japan alongside Perry's great-grandson. There, they will meet with Japanese officials “in the spirit of friendship,” according to Dunham.

The mayor of Kushimoto had invited Dunham to speak at events that will celebrate Kendrick’s voyage.

At Tuesday's meeting, Dunham asked for Selectmen to solicit tokens from town department heads to give as gifts to their Japanese counterparts.

Selectmen and Dunham batted around gift ideas, such as patches, T-shirts, pins and other small items.

“We’ll go on a scavenger hunt,” said Selectman Peter Teitelbaum.

Earlier this year, members of the Wareham Historical Society and officials from Kushimoto conducted a two-hour press conference via Skype on April 28. During the conference, it was announced that new information related to Kendrick’s visit had come to light – a first-person account that chronicled the event.

The discovery occurred after Hayato Sakurai, an advisory curator for a museum in Kushimoto, contacted the Wareham Historical Society last October.

On June 18, the town celebrated “Captain John Kendrick Day” with informational sessions at the captain’s former home, which is now a Wareham Historical Society property and museum.

Dunham thanked Selectmen for their support. She will return with a report on her trip in November.