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*''Died: 1925''

*''Died: 1925''

Robert Walker Irwin was a prominent figure in relations between Japan, the United States, and [[Hawaii]] in the 1880s. A businessman involved with the [[Mitsui]] Trading Company, he was one of the first Americans to obtain Japanese citizenship, and married a Japanese woman named Takechi Iki. In 1885, he played a prominent role in negotiating agreements related to the beginning of [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii]].

Robert Walker Irwin was a prominent figure in relations between Japan, the United States, and [[Hawaii]] in the 1880s, serving for a time as acting Hawaiian Consul in Japan.<ref>[[Kalakaua|David Kalakaua]], in a letter to John Owen Dominis, governor of Oahu, May 12 1881, as reproduced in Richard Greer (ed.), "The Royal Tourist - Kalakaua's Letters Home from Tokio to London," ''Hawaiian Journal of History'' 5 (1971), 82.</ref> A businessman involved with the [[Mitsui]] Trading Company, he was one of the first Americans to obtain Japanese citizenship, and married a Japanese woman named Takechi Iki. In 1885, he played a prominent role in negotiating agreements related to the beginning of [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii]].

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==References==

==References==

*John Van Sant, et al, ”Irwin, Robert Walker,” ''Historical Dictionary of United States – Japan Relations'', The Scarecrow Press (2007), 117.

*John Van Sant, et al, ”Irwin, Robert Walker,” ''Historical Dictionary of United States – Japan Relations'', The Scarecrow Press (2007), 117.

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