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*The [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) imports a pair of camels into Japan and parades them from Nagasaki up to Edo.

*The [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) imports a pair of camels into Japan and parades them from Nagasaki up to Edo.

*Shogunal territory in [[Ezo]] is returned to [[Matsumae han]], and assimilation policies towards the [[Ainu]] are reversed - Ainu are now encouraged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from [[Russia]].

*Shogunal territory in [[Ezo]] is returned to [[Matsumae han]], and assimilation policies towards the [[Ainu]] are reversed - Ainu are now encouraged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from [[Russia]].

*[[Ino Tadataka|Inô Tadataka's]] ''Dai nihon enkai yochi zenzu'', a series of 225 maps resulting from his own thorough surveys of the archipelago, is submitted to the shogunate.

*[[Ino Tadataka|Inô Tadataka's]] ''Dai nihon enkai yochi zenzu'', a series of 225 maps resulting from his own thorough surveys of the archipelago, is completed and submitted to the shogunate.

===Births and Deaths===

===Births and Deaths===