DescriptionSacheita Yokoi (1845-1877) and Daihei Yokoi (1850-1871) travelled from Japan to New Brunswick, New Jersey in the late 1860's under the assumed names of Sataro Ise and Saburo Numagawa, respectively, as part of the first wave of Japanese students to the enter the United States. The brothers were the first Japanese students to enter the Rutgers College Grammar School.
Name: Inventory to the William Elliot Griffis Collection (East Asia), 1859-1928
Detail: The items in this record are part of the William Elliot Griffis Collection. A finding aid with information about the contents of the collection is available online.
CollectionEarly Japanese Students at Rutgers, Rutgers Meets Japan
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
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