Concerning the repatriation of the above castaways, having inquired about the shipwreck and the situation of their convoy, the castaways had been sojourning for some years on the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, and Yakita IZAWA had been engaged in marine products and fishing industry and collecting bird feathers on islands near there. Then, with the intention of meeting migrant workers on Kuba Island, he hired Iwasuke ARIKAWA and Ryosuke MITSUISHI as boatmen, loaded several bales of rice and set sail from Okawa Village in Ishigaki, Yaeyama Islands on June 4th of this year, but that night encountered a storm and drifted for several days in the ocean, (text omitted)
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No. 103 / Report on the matter of expressing gratitude from the Minister [of Japan] to local officials of the Qing Dynasty for their repatriation and treatment of Japanese castaways
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| Document title | No. 103 / Report on the matter of expressing gratitude from the Minister [of Japan] to local officials of the Qing Dynasty for their repatriation and treatment of Japanese castaways |
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| Date created (Western calendar) | September 9, 1893 |
| Date created (Japanese era) | September 9, Meiji 26 |
| Author(s) / Editor(s) | Gonsuke HAYASHI, Acting Consul-General of Japan in Shanghai |
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| Name of publication | On the matter of the conveyance of gratitude to local officials in the Qing Dynasty who rescued Yakita IZAWA, a citizen of Kumamoto Prefecture, and two others when they were drifted to that country / 1893 |
| Content | Yakita IZAWA, Iwasuke ARIKAWA and Ryosuke MITSUISHI departed from Ishigaki Island in order to meet migrant workers on Uotsuri Island in the Senkaku Islands, but ran into a storm and were drifted to China's Zhejiang Province. They received the protection of local officials in that country and were repatriated to Nagasaki Port. From the Acting Consul-General of Japan in Shanghai to the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs. Stationery of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai. |
| Language | Japanese |
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| Public access | Open |
| Repository | Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |
| Medium | Paper/Hand-bound |
| Copies | 4 |
| Reference No. | S1893090900101 |
| Reference & information | Follow the instruction at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |
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