Wakamiya-maru

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title: Wakamiya-maru
text: The Wakamiya-maru was a Japanese cargo ship whose crew members became the first Japanese to circumnavigate the globe after their ship went off course after getting caught in a storm en route from Ishinomaki in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan to Edo in November 1793. At the time, under the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan was pursuing a policy of isolation, and its borders were essentially closed. However, after sixteen days at sea, the Wakamiya-maru arrived at the island of Unalaska in the north Pa
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description: 18th-century Japanese cargo ship
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