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Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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68 years
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Oguri Jukichi (小栗重吉, Oguri Jūkichi, 1785–1853) was one of the first Japanese citizens known to have reached present day California.He and his fourteen-man crew, bound for Edo, were sailing off the Japanese coast in 1813 when their ship, the Tokujomaru, was disabled in a storm.The ship floated across the Pacific Ocean until Oguri and two surviving crew members were rescued by an American ship off the California coast near Santa Barbara in 1815.
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