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This is a list of foreign diplomatic missions located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.As of November 2024, the area hosts 41 consulates-general from 41 countries (Mexico has two). 38 are located in the city of San Francisco; there is one each in Palo Alto, Burlingame, and San Jose.
The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS) is a Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT)-designated weekend Japanese school serving the area. The school system, headquartered in San Francisco, rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016; two of the schools are in San Francisco and two are in the South Bay.
Kanrin Maru (circa 1860) The three plenipotentiary members of the Japanese embassy: Muragaki Norimasa, Shinmi Masaoki, and Oguri Tadamasa.. On February 9 (January 19 in the Japanese calendar), 1860, the Kanrin Maru set sail from Uraga for San Francisco under the leadership of Captain Katsu Kaishū, with Nakahama "John" Manjiro as the official translator, carrying 96 Japanese men and an ...
A plaque marking the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Japanese ship Kanrin Maru was dedicated March 17, 2010 at Pier 9 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. [3] This ceremony was the first in a year-long series of commemorative events. The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco organized an exhibit in conjunction with the anniversary. The ...
The Japanese Committee on Trade and Information was established on September 26, 1937 by the Japanese consulate in San Francisco with the close cooperation of local Japanese businessmen. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Located at 549 Market Street, [ 4 ] it was created soon after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War with the objective of influencing public ...
Consulate-General Hiroaki Sano [9] Rio de Janeiro: Consulate-General Ken Hashiba [9] São Paulo: Consulate-General Ryōsuke Kuwana [9] Belém: Consulate Keiji Hamada [10] Porto Alegre: Consular Office [9] Canada: Ottawa: Embassy: Yasuhisa Kawamura [11] Calgary: Consulate-General Tatsukuni Uchida [11] Montreal: Consulate-General Osamu Izawa [11 ...
A normal Monday afternoon descended into chaos as a man drove a car through the Chinese consulate visa office in San Francisco and was shot by responding officers. Martha McHardy reports.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in the United States.At present, 175 nations maintain diplomatic missions to the United States in the capital, Washington, D.C. Being the seat of the Organization of American States, the city also hosts missions of its member-states, separate from their respective embassies to the United States.