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Copy of Attachment No. 2 / Request concerning the matter of repatriating Japanese castaways

 Shimo-Mashiki County, Kumamoto Prefecture; Yakita IZAWA
 Kawanabe County, Kagoshima Prefecture; Iwasuke ARIKAWA
 Ibusuki County, Kagoshima Prefecture; Ryosuke MITSUISHI
 The persons above had been sojourning in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture for some years, then on June 4th this year they set sail from Yaeyama in order to meet migrant workers who were on Kuba Island, whereupon they were caught in a storm and washed ashore in Pingyang County of Zhejiang Province in the Qing Dynasty on the 12th of that month, and received protection from local officials in that place.

Document title Copy of Attachment No. 2 / Request concerning the matter of repatriating Japanese castaways
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
Publisher
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 A request from the Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai to the Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture.
Stationery of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.
Language Japanese
Public access Open
Repository Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of JapanNew Window
Medium Paper/Hand-bound
Copies 3
Reference No. S1893090900201
Reference & information Follow the instruction at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
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