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  2. List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868 - Wikipedia

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    Edoardo Chiossone (1833, Italy) was an Italian engraver and painter, noted for his work as a foreign advisor to Meiji period Japan, and for his collection of Japanese art. He designed the first Japanese bank notes. Mercator Cooper (1845, United States) First formal American visit to Edo (now Tokyo), Japan.

  3. Timeline of Japan–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Japan and the United States have held formal international relations since the mid-19th century. The first encounter between the two countries to be recorded in official documents occurred in 1791 when the Lady Washington became the first American ship to visit Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to sell sea otter pelts.

  4. Perry Expedition - Wikipedia

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    After Perry returned to the United States in 1855, Congress voted to grant him a reward of $20,000 (~$737,000 in 2022) in appreciation of his work in Japan. Perry used part of this money to prepare and publish a report of the expedition in three volumes, titled Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan.

  5. Category:American emigrants to Japan - Wikipedia

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  6. Americans in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In addition to registered foreign residents, a significant number of American military personnel, civilian workers, and their dependents live in Japan due to the presence of the United States military in Japan under the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty. Approximately 70% of American military personnel in Japan are stationed in Okinawa Prefecture. [3]

  7. Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a ...

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    Independence Day at Minidoka, a camp in the vast Idaho desert, where over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children were incarcerated during World War II as security risks because of their ...

  8. Townsend Harris - Wikipedia

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    Townsend Harris (October 4, 1804 – February 25, 1878) was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the Harris Treaty between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened Shogunate Japan to foreign trade and culture in the Edo period.

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