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July 8: American Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay. Odaiba island forts built in Edo Bay. Hanayashiki garden opens. [2] 1855 - November 11: 1855 Edo earthquake occurs. 1856 - Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo published. 1868 - Edo renamed "Tokyo." [4] 1869 Japanese imperial capital relocated to Tokyo from Kyoto. [6]
January 19: Harris is appointed as the first Minister Resident to Japan. July: Harris opens the first American legation in Japan at the Zenpuku-ji temple in Azabu, Edo. The first Japanese Embassy to the United States was led by Ambassador Muragaki Norimasa, Vice-Ambassador Shinmi Masaoki, and Observer Oguri Tadamasa (pictured). 1860:
The Japanese ship Kanrin Maru arrives in San Francisco with the delegation, marking the first official visit to a foreign state following the end of its 214-year isolationist policy, demonstrating the degree to which Japan had mastered Western navigation techniques and ship technologies in the 6 years since opening its borders.
Mercator Cooper (1845, United States) First formal American visit to Edo (now Tokyo), Japan. Ranald MacDonald (1848, Scottish-Canadian), The first native English-speaker to teach English in Japan, who taught Einosuke Moriyama , one of the chief interpreters to handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa shogunate.
Japanese American history is the history of Japanese Americans or the history of ethnic Japanese in the United States. People from Japan began immigrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration.
1815: Japanese castaway Oguri Jukichi was among the first Japanese citizens known to have reached present day California. [3]1834: Three castaways Iwakichi, Kyukichi, and Otokichi, were the sole survivors of a Japanese rice transport ship that had been caught in a typhoon, damaged, and blown far off course before beaching on the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula in present-day ...
The history of Tokyo, Japan's capital prefecture and largest city, starts with archeological remains in the area dating back around 5,000 years. Tokyo's oldest temple is possibly Sensō-ji in Asakusa , founded in 628.
Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.