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ジョン万次郎(まんじろう)

A Boy Who Bridged Japan and America in the 1800s

May 04, 2025
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Manjiro Nakahama circa 1880: Photographer uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manjiro_Nakahama_circa_1880,_Millicent_Library_collection.jpg

ジョン万次郎(まんじろう)は、江戸時代(えどじだい)の終(お)わりごろの人(ひと)です。

John Manjiro lived at the end of the Edo period in Japan.

子(こ)どものとき、海(うみ)で仕事(しごと)をしていました。

As a child, he worked on a boat.

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