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Nakayama Jôji was a Japanese official of the [[Meiji period]], prominent in particular as head of the Japanese section of the Hawaiian government's Bureau of Immigration.
Nakayama served as head of the Customs House in [[Yokohama]] in [[1872]], before being named Japanese Consul General to Rome that same year, and then becoming a member of the Imperial Household Staff in [[1876]].
In [[1885]], he came to Hawaii aboard the ''[[City of Tokio]]'', alongside the first [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|Japanese contract laborers to immigrate to Hawaii]]. Shortly afterwards, he became head of the Japanese section of the Hawaiian Bureau of Immigration.
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==References==
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii 1885-1924'', Bishop Museum (1985), 50.
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