Sesquicentennial Of Japanese Embassy To The United States
The Sesquicentennial of Japanese Embassy to the United States in 2010 marked the 150th anniversary of the first Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860), Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States in 1860. The purpose of the 1860 Japanese diplomatic mission was to ratify the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States – Japan), Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, which had been signed several years earlier.Press release "First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to U.S. Is Subject of May 24 Lecture,"Library of Congress, April 16, 2010. The initial Japan-US treaties opened the port of Edo and four other Japanese cities to American trade. In 2010, the sesquicentennial commemorated the extent to which the Japanese ambassadors and their party affected subsequent bilateral relations between the two countries. Commemorative events San Francisco A plaque marking the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Japanese ship Kanrin Maru was dedicated March 17, 2010 at Pier 9 on ...
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Japanese Embassy To The United States (1860)
The was dispatched in 1860 by the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu). Its objective was to ratify the new Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Japan, in addition to being Japan's first diplomatic mission to the United States since the 1854 opening of Japan by Commodore Matthew Perry. Another significant facet of the mission was the shogunate's dispatch of a Japanese warship, the ''Kanrin Maru'', to accompany the delegation across the Pacific and thereby demonstrate the degree to which Japan had mastered Western navigation techniques and ship technologies barely six years after ending its isolation policy of nearly 250 years. Background On January 19, 1860, the ''Kanrin Maru'' set sail from Uraga for San Francisco under the leadership of Captain Katsu KaishÅ«, with Nakahama "John" Manjiro as the official translator, carrying 96 Japanese men and an American officer, John M. Brooke on board. The overall head of the mission was Admiral (木æ ...
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