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After three weeks in the capital, the Japanese Mission had traveled to Baltimore and Philadelphia. Their arrival in New York City was met with a parade up Broadway and a military review of 7000 local militia. During their two week visit the city spent $100,000 on lavish hospitality, culminating in a huge banquet and ball on June 25, 1860. The embassy left for home from New York aboard the U.S.S. Niagara on June 30, 1860. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Chitoshi Yanaga, "The First Japanese Embassy to the United States," in Ellis S. Krauss and Benjamin Nyblade (eds.), Japan and North America: First Contacts to the Pacific War (New York: Routledge, 2004), 46-49.
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