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TitleTaro Kusakabe
Date Created1867
DescriptionTaro Kusakabe (Yasohachi Yagi) was the first student from Fukui, Echizen, Japan to come to America, as a student of Reverend Edward T. Corwin of Millstone, New Jersey. He was the first Japanese...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Meiji period, (1868-1912)
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TitleJapanese Section, Willow Grove Cemetery
Date Created1886
DescriptionThe Japanese section of Willow Grove Cemetery in New Brunswick, New Jersey, contains the plots of seven Japanese men and one baby girl buried between 1870 and 1886. This section began with the...
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)
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TitleTaro Kusakabe Funeral
Date Created1870
DescriptionTaro Kusakabe (Yasohachi Yagi) was the first Japanese student to go to Rutgers College, where he studied mathematics and the physical sciences. Kusakabe died prematurely from tuberculosis, two weeks...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)