Ernest Mason Satow

Sir Ernest Mason Satow,, was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan, where he was known as Satō Ainosuke , than in Britain or the other countries in which he served as a diplomat. He was a key figure in late 19th-century Anglo-Japanese relations.

30 June 1843

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