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John Manjiro (Manjiro Nakahama)

Early Japanese immigrant to the United States

• The Manjiro Society
• The John Manjiro Page (Fairhaven/New Bedford-Tosashimizu Sister City Committee)
• "John Manjiro"

Website created by Robert Weller and Ben Zhou, Junior Division, National History Day 2005. Includes useful bibliography and list of web links.

• John Manjiro, "Drifting Toward the Southeast"

The first complete English-language edition translation of Manjiro's account of his encounter with America ("Hyoson Kiryaku", 1852).

• Christopher Benfey, "Herman Melville and John Manjiro: Toward a wave theory of the Pacific". Common-Place vol. 5, no. 2 (January 2005).
• "Manjiro: The Japanese Boy Who Discovered America" (New Bedford Whaling Museum)
• Exhibition: "Pacific Encounters: Yankee Whalers, Manjiro, and the Opening of Japan" (New Bedford Whaling Museum, April 16, 2004-April 30, 2005)
• Exhibition: "Drifting: Nakahama Manjiro's Tale of Discovery"
  • Los Angeles, Japanese American National Museum (October 11, 2003-January 4, 2004)
  • Philadelphia, The Rosenbach Museum & Library (October 5, 1999-February 6, 2000)
    • "The Amazing Manjiro" (children's education site, Rosenbach Museum & Library)
• Stephen L. Cabral, "Manjiro fest showcases Japanese culture". South Coast Today, October 7, 2001.
• David Knickerbocker, "John Manjiro was first to connect U.S. - Japan". JapanToday.com, November 28, 2001

Relates the efforts of Hiroshi Gima and Yoshimasa Kamiya to tell the story of Manjiro's later travels to Okinawa, captured in their book John Manjiro and the Ryukyu Kingdom.

• Midori Matsuzawa, "The men who introduced Western culture: John Manjiro". Daily Yomiuri Online, [n.d.], 2000.
• Film: "The Castaway: The Story of Manjiro" (Kataribe Productions)
• Manjiro Historic Ship Society

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