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| | The Dartmouth Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Nihonmatsu became interested in furthering the relationship with Hanover because one of its most famous residents, Kanichi Asakawa, who is credited with founding Asian Studies in America, graduated from Dartmouth in 1899. |
 | | Asakawa went on to receive his doctorate from Yale University and was the first Asian professor at a major university in America. |
 | | In what was described by Kate Connolly, vice chair of the Hanover Board of Selectmen, as the "Asakawa pilgrimage," students stay with Hanover families, then move on to New Haven, Conn., to visit Asakawa's grave and finally to New York City to return to Japan. |
| www.thedartmouth.com /article.php?aid=2005050201060 (470 words) |
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