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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 ...
Thomas Glover had a common-law marital relationship with a Japanese woman named Awajiya Tsuru (淡路屋 ツル), a native of Bungo province (present day Oita Prefecture) whom he apparently met in Osaka in the early 1870s. Glover and Tsuru remained together until the latter's death in 1899. The couple had a daughter named Hana, born in Nagasaki ...
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.
Bernardo the Japanese, the first Japanese to visit Europe, in 1553; Tenshō embassy, first Japanese embassy to visit Europe, in 1582; Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese emissary who led the Keichō Embassy (慶長使節) to Europe between 1613 and 1620; Grand Embassy of Peter I, an inspiration for the Iwakura Mission
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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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.