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  2. Timeline of Japan–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    1791: The Lady Washington becomes the first American ship to visit Japan. [2] John Kendrick, an American trader, stops both the Lady Washington and the Grace (captained by William Douglas) at Kii Ōshima in Kushimoto, Wakayama, in an unsuccessful attempt to sell sea otter pelts. The encounter becomes the first between Japan and the United ...

  3. List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868 - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Japan–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    And in 1791, two American ships commanded by the American explorer John Kendrick stopped for 11 days on Kii Ōshima island, south of the Kii Peninsula. He is the first American to visit Japan, but there is no Japanese account of his visit. [14] The USS Columbus of James Biddle, and an American crewman in Edo Bay in 1846

  5. Americans in Japan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Nakahama Manjirō - Wikipedia

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    Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎, January 27, 1827 – November 12, 1898), also known as John Manjirō (or John Mung), [1] was a Japanese samurai and translator who was one of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator during the opening of Japan.

  7. The US ambassador to Japan visits southern islands at the ...

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    Okinawa's Gov. Denny Tamaki, who supports the Japan-U.S. security alliance but calls for a reduction of the island’s burden of hosting half of about 50,000 American troops based in Japan ...

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  9. Perry Expedition - Wikipedia

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    After Perry returned to the United States in 1855, Congress voted to grant him a reward of $20,000 (~$737,000 in 2022) in appreciation of his work in Japan. Perry used part of this money to prepare and publish a report of the expedition in three volumes, titled Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan.