1853

Perry called at Chichijima and purchased land for a coal storage

  • Feb 26, 2025

Perry had long believed the Ogasawara Islands to be an important location for trade and commerce, so he visited Chichijima, which is one of the Ogasawara Islands, after visiting Naha islands as he sought to recommend it as a port of call on Pacific steamer routes based on his own surveys. He selected a location on the northern side of Port Lloyd that would be suitable for an office, coal storage and other buildings. At this time Perry released several animals on the island and distributed vegetable seeds to the settlers. (Ref. 1)

Ref.1：Francis L. Hawks (compiled by), Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1856, p.200.

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Ref.1：Tanabe Taichi, “A patrol visit to the Ogasawara Islands,” Bakumatsu Gaiko Dan (Tales of foreign relations at the end of the Shogunate)  (Publisher: Fuzambo, 1898), p. 191

Ref.2：R.D. Eldridge, Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands in U.S.-Japan Relations, (in Japanese translation), Kagoshima: Nanpo Shinsha, 2008, pp. 35-40.

Ref.3：Tanaka Hiroyuki, Bakumatsu no Ogasawara (Ogasawara at the End of the Edo Period), Chuo Koronsha, 1997 (Chuko Shinsho), pp. 93-97.

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