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The Consulate-General of the United States in Osaka-Kobe (Japanese: 駐大阪・神戸米国総領事館), commonly referred to as the U.S. Consulate-General in Osaka, is a consular post of the United States in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
The first American consulate in Japan was opened at the temple of Gyokusen-ji, Shimoda, Shizuoka under Consul General Townsend Harris.Gyokusen-ji is also the location of a small number of foreign graves dating from as early as 1854 marking the final resting place of U.S. forces personnel that died while serving as part of Commodore Matthew Perry's 'Black Ship' fleet.
Consulate-General 2011 [33] Sweden: Consulate-General 2008 [citation needed] Otaru Soviet Union: Vice-Consulate 1938 [34] Sapporo Australia: Consulate 2019 [35] Shimoda United States: Consulate-General: 1859 [36] Shimonoseki United Kingdom: Consulate 1940 [37] Yokohama Mexico: Consulate 1941 [38] United Kingdom: Consulate: 1972 United States ...
The Consulate of the United States, Fukuoka (Japanese: 在福岡米国領事館) is a consular post of the United States in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The consulate has a public relations division called the Fukuoka American Center. [1] Currently it is the only U.S. consulate in Kyushu, [2] but for about 80 years from the late ...
Beginning in 1854 with the use of gunboat diplomacy by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the U.S. has maintained diplomatic relations with Japan, except for the ten-year period between the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (and the subsequent declaration of war on Japan by the United States) and the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, which normalized relations between the United States and Japan.
Japan made the request through its embassy in Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump removed the exceptions and exemptions from his 2018 tariffs on steel imports to a minimum of 25%, while ...
US Navy officer Lt. Ridge Alkonis, who was jailed in Japan for negligent driving that resulted in the death of two people, has been booked into a federal prison in Los Angeles following his ...
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).