Museum in memory of John Manjiro to open in U.S. on May 7

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows a house in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, where John Manjiro, the first Japanese to live in America, resided in the mid-19th century. The house, owned by William Whitfield, captain of a whaling ship and who rescued fisherman Manjiro in 1841 in the Pacific, has been rebuilt into a museum, the Captain Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Memorial House. The museum will open to the public on May 7.

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