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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.
Many Americans served as foreign government advisors in Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912). Prior to World War II, it was a common practice for first-generation issei Japanese immigrants in the United States to send their nisei children, who were American citizens, to Japan for education.
Henry Heusken (1855, United States) A Dutch-American interpreter for the American consulate and Harris's secretary, who was assassinated by anti-foreigner rōnin. His diary was published as Japan Journal, 1855–1861. [27] Friedrich August Lühdorf (1855-6), supercargo on the American ship Greta. Became the first foreigner to conduct trade in ...
Japanese American civil rights leaders and advocates criticized former President Trump for comparing rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to those held in internment camps during ...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the White House Rose Garden in February 2025.. International relations between Japan and the United States began in the late 18th and early 19th century with the diplomatic but force-backed missions of U.S. ship captains James Glynn and Matthew C. Perry to the Tokugawa shogunate.
Japanese Americans have been returning to their ancestorial homeland for years as a form of return migration. [1] With a history of being racially discriminated against, the anti-immigration actions the United States government forced onto Japan, and the eventual internment of Japanese Americans (immigrants and citizens alike), return migration was often seen as a better alternative.
A Modern History of Japan. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511060-9. Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674984424. Schrijvers, Peter (2002). The GI war against Japan : American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II ...
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 .