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10 de may. de 2021 · On May 7, 1843, a 16-year-old named Manjiro Nakahama became America’s first Japanese-born U.S. resident. Manjiro Nakahama, or more traditionally, Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎, January 27, 1827 – November 12, 1898), was an apprentice fisherman who, along with four others, was stranded for six months in 1841 on the uninhabited island of Torishima, 300 miles off the coast of Japan.
Japanese translator and diplomat Manjiro Nakahama (1827–1898) lived an adventurous life, rising from the Japanese peasant class to the rank of samurai, advisor, and translator to Japan's leaders at a key time in that nation's history. At age 14, he was lost at sea on a fishing boat and rescued by American whalers.
Manjiro Nakahama. (1827-1898) Lived in Fairhaven 1843-1849. Returned to Japan 1851. In 1843, Fairhaven became the home of the first Japanese person to live in America. The ties of friendship, first formed when a Fairhaven whaling captain rescued fourteen year old Manjiro Nakahama from a small island in the Pacific Ocean, have endured to this ...
29 de jun. de 2015 · Manjirō accompanied the first Japanese delegation to America. He also became a samurai—after which the shogun granted him a last name (he chose Nakahama after his home village). The crown prince’s 1987 visit honored the ocean-spanning relationship between Fairhaven and Japan that was seeded by Manjirō’s friendship with Whitfield, all thanks to an extraordinary adventure.
23 de ene. de 2024 · Manjirō was married three times and had seven children. In 1918, his eldest son, Dr. Nakahama Toichirō, donated a valuable sword to Fairhaven in token of his father's rescue and the kindness of the town. It continued to be displayed in the town library even during World War II when anti-Japanese sentiment was very high.
In 1841 a young Japanese boy of 14 years named Manjiro was the man of his family having lost his father at the age of eight. His only brother was older but quite sickly. He sought to be a fisherman in order to help support his mother (Shiho) and four siblings. From his village of Nakanohama he journeyed to the port of Usa 90 miles to the northeast.
Manjirō tried to interpret for the Americans and local officials, but he could not understand the islanders’ dialect. Although the visitors and officials traded gifts, Manjirō was disappointed that the Americans and locals failed to establish a further relationship. Map of Nakahama Manjirō’s travels, 1850s, Tokyo National Museum.
