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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 ...
John W. Denney, in Respect and Consideration: Britain in Japan 1853-1868 and Beyond (2011), also emphasises the differing accounts, noting that "the incontestable points are that Shimazu Saburō's samurai killed Richardson and severely wounded Marshall and Clarke". The latter two men, at the official inquest, claimed that although they noticed ...
William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Wiriamu Adamusu, historical kana orthography: ウヰリアム・アダムス [citation needed]; 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin (三浦按針, 'the pilot of Miura'), was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan.
Photograph of the front gateway of the Tor hotel in Kobe following the great flood disaster of 6 July 1938 (Harold S. Williams) Harold Stannett Williams (1898–1987), OBE, was an Australian who spent most of his adult life in Japan.
No one was ever convicted of the murder, and the only reparations made by the government of Japan was a $10,000 payment to Heusken's mother, who had been reliant on her son's income due to long-term illness. [26] Heusken kept a diary (written in French) during his time in Japan, which was translated and published in 1964 as "Japan Journal 1855 ...
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Thomas Blake Glover was born at 15 Commerce Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland on 6 June 1838, the fifth of eight children, to Thomas Berry Glover (1806-1878), a coastguard officer from Vauxhall, London and Mary Findlay (1807-1887) from the parish of Fordyce, Banffshire.
The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble. Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the ...