This week: what role does a sleepy town in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula play in Japan’s history? Well, more than you’d think. We’ll look at three different connections between Japan and Port Angeles over the next few weeks, starting with the story of some castaways who found themselves adrift nearby almost 200 years ago.
Sources
Iritani, Evelyn. An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship between the United States an
d Japan, Told in Four Stories from the Life of an American Town.
Saito, Mino. Tsuji: Interpreters in and around Early-Modern Japan
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