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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

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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

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Scene after March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo taken Dec. 4, 2020, shows a textbook stained by mud at Nakahama Elementary School in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit hard by the tsunami after the March 2011 huge earthquake. The school was opened to the public in September as a disaster relic.

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Disaster-hit elementary school

Balloons are sent up at disaster-hit Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture before it is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020. Conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan.

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Disaster-hit elementary school

People take part in a guided tour of disaster-hit Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture as it is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020. Conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan.

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Disaster-hit elementary school

People take part in a guided tour of disaster-hit Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture as it is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020. Conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan.

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Disaster-hit elementary school

Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020, after conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan.

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Disaster-hit elementary school

People take part in a guided tour of disaster-hit Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture as it is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020. Conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan.

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Disaster-hit elementary school

Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020, after conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan.

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Disaster-hit elementary school

Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020, after conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan.