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  Japanese warship San Juan Bautista - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
San Juan Bautista was built in 1613 by Date Masamune, the Daimyo of Sendai in northern Japan, in Tsuki-No-Ura harbour (Ishinomaki, Miyagi).
San Juan Bautista is reported to have required 45 days work, with the participation of technical experts from the Bakufu, 800 shipwrights, 700 smiths, and 3000 carpenters.
A new San Juan Bautista was reconstructed in 1993 on the basis of the records of the House of Date.
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 Japanese war crimes - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Japanese war crimes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During the period of Japanese imperialism from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, military personnel from the Empire of Japan were accused — and in some cases later convicted by war crimes tribunals — of a series of human rights abuses, against civilians and prisoners of war (POWs) throughout East Asia and the Western Pacific.
The rise of Japanese nationalism was seen partly in the adoption of Shinto as a state religion from 1890, including its entrenchment in the education system.
Signs of a growing ruthlessness, inculcated by militarist and imperial ideologies, were symbolised by the murder by alleged Japanese agents of Empress Myeongseong, the last Empress of Korea, in 1895, as the Japanese regime attempted to increase its influence in Korea.
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 Edo period Online Research :: Information about Edo period   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is at the beginning of the Edo period that Japan built her first ocean-going Western-style warships, such as the Japanese warship San Juan Bautista, a 500-ton Galleon -type ship that transported a Japanese embassy headed by Hasekura Tsunenaga to the Americas, which then continued to Europe.
Russia 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 Hokkaido.
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 Japanese battleship Kaiyo Maru, which were used against pro-imperial forces during the Boshin war, under the command of Admiral Enomoto Takeaki.
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 Japanese warship San Juan Bautista: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She transported a Japanese embassy of 180 people headed by Hasekura Rokuemon (Hasekura Rokuemon: more facts about this subject), and accompanied by the Spanish friar Luis Sotelo (Luis Sotelo: luis sotelo (1574-1624), was a franciscan friar born in sevilla, spain...
San Juan Bautista was built in 1613 by Date Masamune (Date Masamune: date masamune (1567-1636) was one of leading daimyo...
San Juan Bautista is reported to have required 45 days work, with the participation of technical experts from the Bakufu (Bakufu: :this page is about the japanese ruler and military rank....
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 San Juan Bautista -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The town of San Juan Bautista grew rapidly during the California Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today.
San Juan Bautista (Spanish: Saint John the Baptist) is a city located in San Benito County, California.
The Juan Bautista de Anza House, the General Juan Castro house, and the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District are National Historic Landmarks.
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 Edo period explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A 1634 Japanese [[Red seal ship.]] The beginning of the Edo period coincides with the last decades of the Nanban period, during which intense interaction with European powers, on the economic and religious plane, took place.
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, which then continued to 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 Hokkaido.
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 Nicaragua
British settlers seized the port of San Juan del Norte--at the mouth of the Río San Juan on the southern Caribbean coast--and expelled all Nicaraguan officials on January 1, 1848.
The valley of the Río San Juan forms a natural passageway close to sea level across the Nicaraguan isthmus from the Caribbean Sea to Lago de Nicaragua and the rift.
Tropical rain forests are characteristic from the Laguna de Perlas to the Río San Juan, in the interior west of the savannas, and along rivers through the savannas.
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 Japanese warship Kanrin Maru - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She was ordered in 1853 from the Netherlands, the only country with which Japan had diplomatic relations throughout its period of Seclusion, by the Shogun's government, the Bakufu.
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).
They became the second official Japanese embassy to cross the Pacific Ocean, around 250 years after the embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga to Mexico and then Europe in 1614, on the Japanese-built galleon San Juan Bautista.
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 VZ Local - San Francisco, California City Guide
San Francisco County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
San Francisco's frontier spirit and wild and ribald character caused it to become known as a gay mecca beginning in the nineteenth century.
San Francisco International Airport, for example, would be located within San Mateo County but for the fact it is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco.
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 Japanese warship Kanrin Maru: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kanrin Maru (Japanese: 咸臨丸) was Japan (Japan: A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) 's first sail and screw-driven steam warship.
She was delivered in 1855, barely one year after the forcible opening of Japan to trade by Commodore Perry (Commodore Perry: United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)).
They became the second official Japanese embassy to cross the Pacific Ocean, around 250 years after the embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga (Hasekura Tsunenaga: more facts about this subject) to Mexico and then Europe in 1614, on the Japanese-built galleon San Juan Bautista (San Juan Bautista: more facts about this subject).
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 Japanese warship Shohei Maru - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She was ordered in 1852 by the government of the Shogun to the southern fief of Satsuma in the island of Kyushu, in anticipation of the announced mission of Commodore Perry in 1853.
Shōhei Maru was then used as a merchandise transport for the development of the northern island of Hokkaido, where she was wrecked after a storm on 2 March 1870.
Although Shohei Maru represented a return to the building of ocean-going warships on the part of the Bakufu after two centuries of prohibition, Japan had built several western-style sailships in the beginning of the 17th century, such as the galleon San Juan Bautista.
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 USS Austin
The three Texas Navy warships entered the port of Sisal on the 6th and remained there until the 24th while Commodore Moore conducted diplomatic discussions with the federalists of Yucatan.
San Antonio failed to make the rendezvous before water and ration shortages forced Austin to depart the Areas Islands on 5 March.
While his warships were in the anchorage, Commodore Moore made plans and changes which he hoped would enable him to renew the engagement on somewhat more equal terms.
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 Rec Fresh : Article 'Acapulco'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay, almost land-locked, easy of access, and with so secure an anchorage that vessels can safely lie alongside the rocks that fringe the shore.
There is great natural beauty in the surroundings, but the mountains render the town difficult of access from the interior – or at at least did, until the construction of a 2-km-long tunnel to the waterfront from the hinterland in the 1990s.
An earlier effort to admit the cooling sea breezes by cutting through the mountains a passage called the Abra de San Nicolas had some beneficial effect.
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 Edo period - The HelpFox tells all he knows about Edo period.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is at the beginning of the Edo period that Japan built her first ocean-going Western-style warships, such as the
were seen in Japanese waters with increasing frequency in the 1810s and 1820s.
deals with Japanese period dramas, which are usually set in the Edo period.
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 10 Feb History.
The capture of Midway was an important part of the broader Japanese strategy of trying to create a defensive line that would stretch from the western Aleutian Islands in the north to the Midway, Wake, Marshall, and Gilbert Islands in the south, then west to the Dutch West Indies.
Japanese bombing of the atoll by ship and submarine failed to break through the extraordinary defense put up by Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the US Navy in the Pacific, who used every resource available to protect Midway and, by extension, Hawaii.
Yamamoto persevered with an elaborate warship operation, called Mi, launched in June, but the Battle of Midway was a disaster for Japan, and was the turning point for ultimate US victory in the Pacific.
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 Chapter 1
Notes: Even though the de la Guerra family of Santa Barbara represents the upper class of California who controlled the region, the author submits the argument that California's economy was tied with Latin America in worldwide commerce which made the patriarchal family less of a factor.
Notes: A discussion of Japanese shipwreck victims of 1842 and their contact with the customs and life styles found in Baja California society.
Notes: A study concerning the reaction of the Sinaloans to Spanish exploration and colonization in Sinaloa with discussion of explorer Juan Bautista de Anza (1735-1788).
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 March 28 Definition / March 28 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
[click for more] - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San FranciscoThe Presidio of San Francisco is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in the City and County of San Francisco.
The park is characterized by many wooded areas, hills, and scenic vistas overlooking the San Francisco Bay....
January 30 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
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 san juan bautista - OneLook Dictionary Search
San Juan Bautista : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
San Juan Bautista : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
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 Science Fair Projects - Japanese warship San Juan Bautista
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These efforts were seen with disapproval by the Spanish government in Manila, and Los Rios Coronel suggested that Luis Sotelo should not be allowed into Japan any further (C.R. Boxer).
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 Japanese warship Shohei Maru: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shōhei Maru (Japanese: 昇平丸) was Japan (Japan: A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) 's first Western-style warship following the country's period of Seclusion.
The ship was used mainly for training by the Bakufu (Bakufu: :this page is about the japanese ruler and military rank....
Shōhei Maru was then used as a merchandise transport for the development of the northern island of Hokkaido (Hokkaido: The second largest of the four main islands of Japan; north of Honshu), where she was wrecked after a storm on 2 March 1870.
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 Ron Horii's Bay Area and Travel FAQs 2000
San Jose is surrounded by great hiking areas.
However, I've heard reports of ghosts in several places in the Bay Area: the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Pacheco Pass, the Boulder Creek Lodge in Boulder Creek, the aircraft carrier Hornet in Alameda, and the Toys R Us in Sunnyvale.
The Bay Trail can be taken from Redwood Shores to Foster City, along the San Mateo Shoreline through Coyote Point, and almost without interruption all the way to the edge of San Francisco Airport.
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 Replica Ships Worldwide
Ultimately the Royal Navy recognized SULTANA's limits as a warship and wisely ordered the schooner back to England where she was sold out of the Navy and returned to private commercial service.
She lies at the San Diego Maritime Museum, but is scheduled to leave 30 November 2004.
The warship H.M.S. Tecumseth is a 124' replica of her namesake which was originally built in Chippewa in 1814 before her eventual transfer to the Penetanguishene Naval Establishment in 1817.
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 Edo period @ BaseballLiving.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The portrayal of the mystifying Japanese culture in literature, film and other forms of the media never ceases to astonish me; such as the complex and polite practices of the Nippon people that fêted a vibrant universe entirely idiosyncratic from the rest of the world.
THERE are two kinds of rain in Japan during the month-long “rainy season” – that which never lets up, and that which seems to last forever.
Awonderful opportunity to study the age-old Japanese art in fantasy settings is what the Japanese Dolls exhibition, currently on at the Nagaaki Yamamoto Hall of ABK-AOTS DOSOKAI, offers guests and aficionados with distinct interest in Japanese culture.
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 Timeline 1790_1799
In 1945 it was donated by the Gump family to the city of San Francisco.
1797 Jun 24, Mission San Juan Bautista, the 15th in California, was founded in the lands of the Mutsun Indians.
1797 Father Juan Norberto de Santiago arrived in the area of Temecula in Riverside County, Ca., to build a mission and convert the Pechanga Indians (renamed Luiseno Indians by the Spanish).
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Kanko was the first Japanese vessel to cross the Pacific, with Kaishu Katsu and other famous Japanese aboard.
There is a replica of the Manora lighthouse, a mock-up of a Daphne class submarine's operations rooms, and a central building housing galleries and naval artifacts.
Collection of models of the Peruvian warships engaged in the Pacific War.
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