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*''Born: [[1833]]''
*''Died: [[1885]]''
Charles Wolcott Brooks was Japan’s consul general and commercial agent in the United States from [[1858]] until [[1873]].
In that position, he coordinated various commercial arrangements for the Japanese government, as well as for the itineraries of the [[Embassy of 1860]], and the [[Iwakura Mission]] of [[1871]]-[[1873]]. He concurrently owned and operated a trading company based in San Francisco, conducting dealings with China, Japan, and the Kingdom of Hawaii. Brooks wrote a volume on Japanese castaways entitled ''Japanese Wrecks Stranded and Picked Up Adrift in the North Pacific Ocean'', published in [[1876]].
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==References==
*John Van Sant, et al, ”Brooks, Charles Wolcott,” ''Historical Dictionary of United States – Japan Relations'', The Scarecrow Press (2007), 56.
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*''Died: [[1885]]''
Charles Wolcott Brooks was Japan’s consul general and commercial agent in the United States from [[1858]] until [[1873]].
In that position, he coordinated various commercial arrangements for the Japanese government, as well as for the itineraries of the [[Embassy of 1860]], and the [[Iwakura Mission]] of [[1871]]-[[1873]]. He concurrently owned and operated a trading company based in San Francisco, conducting dealings with China, Japan, and the Kingdom of Hawaii. Brooks wrote a volume on Japanese castaways entitled ''Japanese Wrecks Stranded and Picked Up Adrift in the North Pacific Ocean'', published in [[1876]].
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==References==
*John Van Sant, et al, ”Brooks, Charles Wolcott,” ''Historical Dictionary of United States – Japan Relations'', The Scarecrow Press (2007), 56.
[[Category:Foreigners]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Diplomats]]
