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Alessandro Valignano (1579, Italy) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism to the Far East, and especially to Japan. He first visited Japan in 1579. William Adams (1600, England) – The first Englishman to reach Japan. Among the first Westerners to become a samurai, under Shōgun ...
Constructed 1833–1835, Kingston Penitentiary is the oldest standing prison dating to pre-confederation in Canada. After closing in 2013, the institution began operating tours seasonally from May–October, offering guided tours with online ticketing and Tour Guides as well as retired Correctional Staff on site to provide information to guests.
Western Penitentiary was designed by John Haviland and built in 1826 two miles south-east from the current facility by the architect Strickland. [3] The original site is now home to the National Aviary. During Charles Dickens visit to the city March 20–22, 1842, he visited the original prison.
1907: The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 between United States and Japan results in Japan ending the issuance passports for new laborers. 1913: California passed the Alien Land Law which prohibited "aliens ineligible to citizenship" (i.e. all Asian immigrants, including Japanese) from owning land or property, though it permitted three year leases.
Jiro Onuma was born in 1904 in Kanegasaki, Iwate Prefecture in Japan as a son of Kogoro Onuma and Mina Sajima. [1] He left Yokohama Port, taking Shinyō Maru (真洋丸) from Yokohama on November 29, 1923, and arrived in San Francisco on December 18, 1923. [1]
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The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District. The state had built a small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to ...