− | 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]]. | + | In that position, he coordinated various commercial arrangements for the Japanese government, as well as for the itineraries of the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|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]]. |