Newspaper Articles
1859-05-11 Yokohama: Preparations
Report by Dutch commander J. van Capellen of preparations at Yokohama.
Kjeld Duits, who has called Japan his home since 1982 (Showa 57), is the founder of DUITS, a boutique journalism and stock photography agency in Tokyo. The agency works especially with news media, publishers, advertising agencies, museums and government agencies.
Report by Dutch commander J. van Capellen of preparations at Yokohama.
De Graeff’s arrival in Yokohama reported by the captain of his ship.
Dutch diplomats and consuls in Japan between 1860 and 1865 as published in the Staatsalmanak voor het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.
George Frederic Plate is appointed Consul in Yokohama, F. Howard Vyse provisional vice-consul in Hakodate.
Buildings of the former Dutch Consulate-General at Dejima to be sold at auction.
Report of the Great Fire of Yokohama of November 26, 1866 in the New York Herald. Most of the report is from The Daily Japan Herald of November 28.
Dutch trading company Carst, Lels & Co. reports the damage to their holdings as a result of the Great Fire of Yokohama of November 26, 1866.
Willem Martinus van der Tak is acting consul because Consul Plate is on sick leave in the Netherlands.
Dutch daily Algemeen Handelsblad describes a “tense curiousity” in Yokohama about the opening of the ports of Hiogo (Kobe) and Osaka.
Information about the preparations for opening Osaka and Kobe ports. Japan is at a turning point in history.
A Dutch merchant recounts the opening of the port of Hiogo (Kobe) on January 1, 1868.
Report about the opening of Kobe port, and political unrest in Japan.