{"id":48789,"date":"2022-08-23T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=48789"},"modified":"2022-08-23T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:39:04","slug":"who-was-the-first-u-s-president-to-visit-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2022\/08\/23\/who-was-the-first-u-s-president-to-visit-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was the first U.S. president to visit Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Posted by Tom Baker<\/a> (Chiba, 1989-91)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. President Joe Biden is set to visit Hiroshima next spring, when Japan hosts the Group of Seven summit. All of Biden\u2019s recent predecessors have also visited Japan at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly, the first presidential visit happened way back in 1879, when Ulysses Grant spent the summer in Japan shortly after leaving office. He met an array of Japanese historical figures, including Eiichi Shibusawa and Emperor Meiji. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently spent a day exploring Tokyo in Grant\u2019s footsteps. Here\u2019s what I found.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Posted by Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91) U.S. President Joe Biden is set to visit Hiroshima next spring, when Japan hosts the Group of Seven summit. All of Biden\u2019s recent predecessors have also visited Japan at some point. Amazingly, the first presidential visit happened way back in 1879, when Ulysses Grant spent the summer in Japan shortly after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[1604,1603,1602,1601,249,1600],"class_list":["post-48789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-writers","tag-eiichi-shibusawa","tag-emperor-meiji","tag-meiji","tag-shibusawa","tag-tom-baker","tag-ulysses-grant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t