Word: takenouchi
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...soared over the Pacific last week he may well have remembered Japan's first emissary to the U.S. and Europe. He was Takenouchi, Lord of Shimitsuke, who sailed from Yokohama on the British war ship Odin in January 1862, charged with postponing for five years the opening of Japanese ports to foreign vessels. Takenouchi was successful. Last week world-traveled Saburo Kurusu may have wished that he could regain for Japan the U.S. trade contacts that Takenouchi had postponed. But that was up to Pinch Hitter Kurusu's bosses...
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