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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 ...
Felice Beato (c. 1832 – 29 January 1909), also known as Felix Beato, [note 1] was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers.
William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Uiriamu Adamusu, historical kana orthography: ウヰリアム・アダムス; 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.
The Perry Expedition (Japanese: 黒船来航, kurofune raikō, "Arrival of the Black Ships") was a diplomatic and military expedition in two separate voyages (1852–1853 and 1854–1855) to the Tokugawa shogunate (徳川幕府) by warships of the United States Naval corps.
The mission was to investigate Western nations to understand their socio-economic, political, and economic developments. Japan, like many other nations, was on the precipice of change. Industrialization ushered in technological innovation. It was a period of modernity that Japan embraced.
List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868; Y. Yosegi This page was last edited on 21 April 2024, at 16:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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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.