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Andô Tarô was the first Japanese Consul General appointed to the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]]. He arrived in Hawaii on February 14, [[1886]], aboard the ''City of Peking'', the third ship carrying officially authorized contract laborers [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|immigrating to Hawaii]]. A Japanese consulate had been operating in Honolulu since [[1884]], but Andô acquired a new building in 1886 and moved the consulate there at that time. He also delivered to the Hawaiian government, upon his arrival, the [[Convention of Japanese Immigration]], signed by [[Inoue Kaoru]] and [[Robert Walker Irwin]] in Tokyo earlier that year, to be formally signed in Hawaii.

Andô Tarô was the first Japanese Consul General appointed to the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]] (though not the first Consul; he was preceded by [[Nakamura Jiro|Nakamura Jirô]]). He arrived in Hawaii on February 14, [[1886]], aboard the ''City of Peking'', the third ship carrying officially authorized contract laborers [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|immigrating to Hawaii]]. A Japanese consulate had been operating in Honolulu since [[1884]], but Andô acquired a new building in 1886 and moved the consulate there at that time. He also delivered to the Hawaiian government, upon his arrival, the [[Convention of Japanese Immigration]], signed by [[Inoue Kaoru]] and [[Robert Walker Irwin]] in Tokyo earlier that year, to be formally signed in Hawaii.

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==References==

==References==

*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii 1885-1924'', Bishop Museum (1985), 27.

*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii 1885-1924'', Bishop Museum (1985), 27, 39.

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