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...25th (5/7), and enjoyed a ball at the hotel that evening hosted by August Belmont. The following day, the lead ambassadors paid a visit to Jane Perry, widow

...luding such prominent figures as philanthropist [[Jacob Schiff]], [[August Belmont]] (grandson of [[Commodore Matthew Perry]]), physician [[Takamine Jokichi|T

...ican use.<ref>Hellyer, 163-164.</ref> Perry then departed Okinawa on 6/27 (August 1), and spent the next several months in Hong Kong, before returning to Oki ...the United States|first Japanese embassy to the United States]]. [[August Belmont]], a grandson of the commodore, became in [[1907]] one of the founding memb