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

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.

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield, on April 11, 2015. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photo of feudal warrior likely taken by John Manjiro: researcher

Photo of feudal warrior likely taken by John Manjiro: researcher

Akiyoshi Tani, a specialist at the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute, explains in Kochi, western Japan, on March 13, 2015, his research results that show a portrait photo of the Tosa domain's reform-minded "samurai" warrior Yoshida Toyo was likely taken by John Manjiro in 1861 in Edo, today's Tokyo. The photo was one of the first wet collodion process photography shots in Japan. Manjiro was the first Japanese known to have studied in the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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

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. (Kyodo)