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| Lecture by Mr Geoffrey
Tudor, September, 2006 |
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A lecture was given on September 12(Tuesday) at Japan National Press
Club by PR Advisor to
Japan Airlines and resident of Japan for over 30 years, Mr Geoffrey Tudor. First, he
talked about
Gijsbert Hemmij, once Director of the Dutch East India Company's trading post at Nagasaki
who
died in 1798. Hemmij was on his way back to Nagasaki after a customary visit to Edo when
he died
at the inn where he was staying in Kakegawa but it is unkown how he died. Then, Mr Tudor
unfolded
the tale of how Townsend Harris' secretary and interpreter Henry Heusken was attacked from
two
sides by ronin when returning home on horse back from the Prussian Legation on
January 15,1861,
and died the next day from loss of blood. He proceeded to the discussion of the
assassination of
Ii Naosuke at Sakurada Gate, the Mito Retainers, the Tigertail Group, exploits of Kiyokawa
Hachiro,
and poeple. Occasionally you come across someone with an amazing mastery of Japanese
history
or culture, etc, and Mr Tudor is certainly such a person!
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