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	Japanese warship Kanrin Maru - Definition, explanation
		Kanrin Maru, as a screw-driven steam warship, represented a new technological advance in warship design which had been introduced in the West only ten years earlier with HMS Rattler (1843).
		Kanrin Maru was accompanied by an United States Navy ship, the USS Powhatan.
		Towards the end of the conflict, in September 1868, after several defeats by the Bakufu, Kanrin Maru was one of the eight modern ships led by Enomoto Takeaki towards the northern part of Japan, in his final attempt to wage a counter-attack against pro-imperial forces.
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		The landing of the Japanese marines from the Unyo at Ganghwa Island, Korea, in the 1875 Ganghwa Island incident.
		Japanese armoured cruiser Nisshin in the Mediterranean (Malta, 1919).
		The Japanese pilot corps at the beginning of the war were of high caliber as compared to their contemporaries around the world due to intense training and frontline experience in the Sino-Japanese War.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Japanese warship Kanrin Maru
		Kanrin Maru, as a screw-driven steam warship, represented a new technological advance in warship design which had been introduced in the West only ten years earlier with HMS Rattler (1843).
		Kanrin Maru was accompanied by an United States Navy ship, the USS Powhatan.
		Towards the end of the conflict, in September 1868, after several defeats by the Bakufu, Kanrin Maru was one of the eight modern ships led by Enomoto Takeaki towards the northern part of Japan, in his final attempt to wage a counter-attack against pro-imperial forces.
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	Imperial Japanese Navy information - Search.com
		The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy trace back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery.
		Japanese armoured cruiser Nisshin in the Mediterranean (Malta, 1919).
		The Japanese pilot corps at the beginning of the war were of high caliber as compared to their contemporaries around the world due to intense training practices and frontline experience in the Sino-Japanese War.
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	Tokugawa shogunate - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In 1636 the Portuguese were restricted to Dejima, a small artificial island — and thus, not true Japanese soil — in Nagasaki's harbor.
		Japanese society of the Tokugawa period was influenced by Confucian principles of social order.
		By the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1867, the Japanese navy of the shogun already possessed eight western-style steam warships around the flagship Kaiyō Maru, which were used against pro-imperial forces during the Boshin war, under the command of Admiral Enomoto.
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		Japanese warship Choyo - ChÅyÅ (æé½) was a warship of the Imperial Navy during the Boshin War.
		Japanese warship Kaiten - The Japanese warship Kaiten (åå¤©) was a warship of the troops loyal to the Shogun during the Boshin war in Japan in 1868.
		Japanese warship Moshun - The Japanese warship Moshun (çæ¥) was a warship of the Imperial forces during the Boshin war in Japan in 1868.
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	[BUJINKAN GREECE NINPO TAIJUTSU] > Japanese Periods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Kamakura period (1185-1333) marks the transition to the Japanese "medieval" era, a nearly 700-year period in which the emperor, the court, and the traditional central government were left intact but were largely relegated to ceremonial functions.
		The Muromachi period (Japanese: 室町時代, Muromachi-jidai, also known as the Muromachi era, the Muromachi bakufu, the Ashikaga era, the Ashikaga period, or the Ashikaga bakufu) is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.
		Kanrin Maru, Japan’s first screw-driven steam warship, 1855.The army and the navy were modernized.
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	Us Warship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Warship Gunner 2 also lets you design us warship and construct the seafighters that will play a dominant role in the naval battlespace.
		Japanese warship Kanrin Maru - Kanrin Maru (Japanese: å’¸è¨ä¸¸) was Japan's first sail and screw-driven steam warship.
		Japanese warship Kasuga (1862) - The Japanese warship Kasuga (JPN: æ¥æ—¥) was built in 1862 (or possibly 1863) in Great Britain under the name Kiangsu (after the area of Jiangsu in China).
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	Economy News- Edo_period - Top news, Economy, Economic Review, Business, Banking & Finance, Finance & Taxation, Stock ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is at the beginning of the Edo period that Japan built her first ocean-going Western-style warships, such as the San Juan Bautista, a 500-ton galleon-type ship that transported a Japanese embassy headed by Hasekura Tsunenaga to the Americas then unto Europe.
		Russian warships and traders encroached on Karafuto (called Sakhalin under Russian and Soviet control) and on the Kuril Islands, the southernmost of which are considered by the Japanese as the northern islands of Hokkaidō.
		A British warship entered Nagasaki harbour searching for enemy Dutch ships in 1808, and other warships and whalers were seen in Japanese waters with increasing frequency in the 1810s and 1820s.
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	AmericanHeritage.com / The Ordeal of the KANRIN MARU
		AmericanHeritage.com / The Ordeal of the KANRIN MARU
		Though the story of the storm-racked voyage of the Kanrin Maru is, in her words, “a footnote to history,” it is not without importance: a man who had hitherto seemed merely a picturesque character is now revealed as a figure who played a major role in ending Japan’s long era of self-enforced isolation.
		Manjiro had been assigned to the Kanrin Maru as official interpreter, and the two had many long talks, the substance of which Lieutenant Brooke set down in his day-to-day journals.
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	Naval history of Japan information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Japanese were very much looking forward to acquiring such goods, but had been prohited from any contacts with by the Emperor of China, as a punishment for Wakō pirate raids.
		To avoid problems with the Japanese authorities, he disguised himself as Chinese, and said that he had learnt Japanese from his father, allegedly a businessman who had worked in relation with Nagasaki.
		These treaties were widely regarded by Japanese intellectuals as unequal, having been forced on Japan through gunboat diplomacy, and as a sign of the West's desire to incorporate Japan into the imperialism that had been taking hold of the continent.
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	Imperial Japanese Navy - LocalColorArt.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This was in conflict with Japan's doctrine of "decisive battle" (a doctrine that did not require long range), in which IJN would allow the U.S. to sail across the Pacific, using submarines to weaken it, then force a battle against the U.S. in a "decisive battle area", near Japan, after inflicting such attrition.
		Sinking of the SS Automedon And the Role of the Japanese Navy: A New Interpretation.
		In Western sources, Japanese ironclads are described in CR Boxer "The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650", p122, quoting the account of the Italian Jesuit Organtino visiting Japan in 1578.
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	Tairo Ii Naosuke
		Key items of the agreement called for a Japanese Minister and consuls to reside in the United States and an American diplomatic representative to reside in the Shogun's capital at Edo beginning January 1, 1862, and Osaka beginning January 1, 1863.
		The arrival of the Kanrin Maru in San Francisco with its cargo of kimono-clad samurai from Japan impressed Americans with the skill and abilities of the Japanese.
		The presence of women at official ceremonies and banquets astonished the Japanese, who were equally puzzled by the courtesy American men showed to women.
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	Enomoto Takeaki Summary
		Enomoto Takeaki (榎本武揚 Enomoto Takeaki, August 25, 1836–August 26, 1908) was a Japanese Navy admiral faithful to the Tokugawa Shogunate, who fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War, but later served in the government.
		In 1868, when the Meiji government defeated the forces of the Shogun and occupied Edo, Enomoto refused to deliver his warships, and escaped to Hakodate with the whole Shogun fleet and a handful of French military advisers and their leader Jules Brunet.
		He successively held several ministry positions in the government, and was especially active in promoting Japanese expansionism through settler colonies in the Pacific Ocean and South and Central America.
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		Some ships maybe borderline cases such as the Kanrin Maru">Kanrin Maru, which is actually twice the size of the original, but built following the plans of the original.
		Replicas can be temporary, cheap and very simple, such as the replica of a Viking ship that was burnt at the Leixlip Festival.
		Kanrin Maru">Kanrin Maru; Minami Awaji harbour, Japan; a double-size replica of a Japanese warship
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	Babel \| Manjiro and the Kanrin Maru
		Since the Japanese commander had not sailed on long sea voyages, an American naval officer named Lieutenant John Mercer Brooke was put in charge of sailing the Kanrin Maru for the trip.
		The commander of the Japanese ship became sick and so did Kimura Settsumo, who was also on the Kanrin Maru.
		Settsumo was the Japanese Secretary of Naval Affairs.
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	Ship Replica - ShipAnywhere.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Some ships maybe borderline cases such as the Kanrin Maru, which is actually twice the size of the original, but built following the plans of the original.
		Replicas can be temporary, cheap and very simple, such as the replica of a Viking ship that was burnt at the Leixlip Festival.
		Kanrin Maru; Minami Awaji harbour, Japan; a double-size replica of a Japanese warship
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Imperial Japanese Navy
		Japan, like Britain, was almost entirely dependent on foreign resources to supply its economy, so that the Imperial Japanese Navy had to secure and protect sources for raw material (especially Southeast Asian oil and raw materials) that were far away, and controlled by foreign countries (Britain, the United States and the Netherlands).
		In keeping with its belief in big-gun action, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first navy to mount 14-in (356 mm) guns (with the Kongō), 16-in (406 mm) guns (with the Nagato), and the only Navy ever to mount 18.1-in (460 mm) guns (with the Yamato).
		The Japanese pilot corps at the beginning of the war were of high caliber as compared to their contemporaries around the world due to intense training practices and frontline experience in the Sino-Japanese War.
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	Japan Living: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In March 1868, with a formidable fleetof twelve warships at his disposal, this son of a petty samurai was the most powerful manin Edo.
		And as head of the Tokugawa army, he was determined to burn Edo Castle ratherthan relinquish it in battle, and to wage a bloody civil war against Saigo¹s forces.When Kaishu was informed of the imperial government¹s plans for imminent attack, heimmediately sent a letter to Saigo.
		I have often been angered by the Japanese claims of passivity andtheir claims of being victims due to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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	Imperial Japanese Navy information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		After an Anglo-Japanese siege, the Japanese Navy seized the German naval base of Tsingtao on the Shantung peninsula in China, in November 1914.
		In keeping with its belief in big-gun action, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first navy to mount 14-in (356 mm) guns (with the Kongo), 16-in (406 mm) guns (with the Nagato), and the only Navy ever to mount 18.1-in (460 mm) guns (with the Yamato).
		World War II The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War Two was administered by the Ministry of the Navy of Japan and controlled by the Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff at Imperial General Headquarters.
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		Meanwhile, the leader of the shogun's navy, Enomoto Takeaki, refused to surrender his ships and escaped north with the remnants of the navy (eight steam warships: Kaiten, Banry-, Chiyodagata, Ch-gei, Kaiy- Maru, Kanrin Maru, Mikaho and Shinsoku), and 2,000 members of the navy, in the hope of staging a counter-attack together with the northern daimyo.
		Three warships were dispatched for a surprise attack, in what is known as the Naval Battle of Miyako.
		Although the early Meiji era witnessed a warming between the imperial court and foreign powers, relations with France soured due to the initial support by France for the Shogun, although a second military mission was invited to Japan in 1874, and a third one in 1884.
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		The Bakufu Mission departed aboard the USS Powhatan while the Kanrin Maru was a “ship which had been built for the Tokugawa by the Dutch” (Beasley 67).
		The Kanrin Maru’s purpose was to carry Kimura Yoshitake a man who could substitute for Shimmi and Muragaki on the Powhatan (mentioned later) should either fall ill on the important journey.
		The Kanrin Maru overshadowed the 1860 mission because of its large crew of nine-six men and important personages.
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	Learnkendo.com :: View topic - KANIN MARU, Japan's first STEAM POWERED Military Warship
		Five years later, the Bakufu sent Kanrin Maru on a mission to the United States, clearly wanting to make a point to the world that Japan now mastered Western Navigation Techniques and Western Ship Technologies.
		The Fleet encountered a typhoon on its way northward, and Kanrin Maru, having suffered damaged, was forced into Shimizu Harbour, where she was captured by Imperial forces.
		Enomoto Takeaki finally surrendered in May 1869, and after the end of the conflict, Kanrin Maru was used by the new Imperial Government for the development of the northern island of Hokkaido.
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	150th Anniversary of US-Japan Relations
		The mission is accompanied by the Kanrin maru, a Japanese ship.
		The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War begins.
		Japanese American and the War 2: Soldiers fight in Europe
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		By the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1867, the Tokugawa navy was already the largest of Eastern Asia, organized around eight Western-style steam warships and the flagship KaiyÅ Maru">KaiyÅ Maru, which were used against pro-imperial forces during the Boshin War, under the command of Admiral Enomoto.
		In 1906, it launched the battleship Satsuma">Satsuma, at the time the largest warship in the world by displacement, and the first ship in the world to be designed, ordered and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, about one year before the British Dreadnought">HMS Dreadnought.
		In keeping with its belief in big-gun action, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first navy in the World to mount 14-in (356 mm) guns (with the KongÅ), 16-in (406 mm) guns (with the Nagato), and the only Navy ever to mount 18.1-in (460 mm) guns (with the Yamato).
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