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Would the First Foreigner to Summit Mount Fuji Be Met with Controversy Today? What Did Alcock and His Party Do in the Late Edo Period?

: On July 26th, 1860 (the first year of the Man'en era), British Minister Rutherford Alcock became the first recorded foreigner to climb Mount Fuji. Alcock was officially recognized as a minister after meeting with the 14th Tokugawa Iemochi, so his name often appears in conversations about the end of the Edo period. But why did he climb Mount Fuji? It seems there was a surprisingly simple reason. Rutherford Alcock / Quote from Wikipedia There is…
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: On July 26th, 1860 (the first year of the Man'en era), British Minister Rutherford Alcock became the first recorded foreigner to climb Mount Fuji. Alcock was officially recognized as a minister after meeting with the 14th Tokugawa Iemochi, so his name often appears in conversations about the end of the Edo period. But why did he climb Mount Fuji? It seems there was a surprisingly simple reason. Rutherford Alcock / Quote from Wikipedia There is…

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BUSHOO!JAPAN(武将ジャパン) broke the news in on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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