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NAKAHAMA, Manjiro, Japanese naval officer,
born in Shikoku, Japan, about 1824. He was blown out to sea in a fishing-vessel
in 1840, and rescued by Captain Whitefield, of the American whaling-ship "John
Howland." He was taken to the United States in 1844 and given a good education.
On his return to Japan he was called to Yedo, now Tokyo,
and made an officer, the wearer of two swords, and official interpreter. He
translated Nathaniel Bowditch's "Navigator" into Japanese, and was the first
native of Japan to navigate a ship out of sight of land on scientific
principles.
Though unseen or unknown by Commander Perry or the American
officers, he was chief interpreter of written English to whom all questions and
treaty documents were referred. He was made curator of the scientific apparatus
brought from the United States. Nakahama built various smaller craft on American
models, and was made a captain in the imperial navy.
NAKAHAMA, Manjiro, Japanese naval officer, born in Shikoku, Japan, about 1824. He was blown out to sea in a fishing-vessel in 1840, and rescued by Captain Whitefield, of the American whaling-ship "John Howland." He was taken to the United States in 1844 and given a good education. On his return to Japan he was called to Yedo, now Tokio, and made an officer, the wearer of two swords, and official interpreter. He translated Nathaniel Bow-ditch's " Navigator" into Japanese, and was the first native of Japan to navigate a ship out of sight of land on scientific principles. Though unseen or unknown by Commander Perry or the American officers, he was chief interpreter of written English. to whom all questions and treaty documents were referred. He was made curator of the scientific apparatus brought from the United States. Nakahama built various smaller craft on American models, and was made a captain in the imperial navy.
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experienced 15 years of challenges that
included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed
constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellions.
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