First Englishman to Visit Japan Arrived in 1600
William Adams became the first English visitor to Japan arriving in 1600. He advised the shogun on shipbuilding and spent twenty years there. Tokyo honors him with a street and temple and a June 15 celebration each year. Japan later memorialized him in Gillingham, England in 1934.
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