Category:Italian Diaspora (Japan)

Italian Diaspora (Japan)

Timeline

• 1300c - Marco Polo is credited as being the first person to introduce the "island country" into the European imagination. He did not actually set foot on Japanese soil but in "The Million" he offered a description of the Japanese country as a large independent island full of riches.

• 1579–1583, 1590–1592, 1598–1603. Alessandro Valignano (Jesuit missionary). From Macao he visited Japan three times.

1850s

• 1866 - Beginning of diplomatic relations with the signing of the first Treaty of Friendship and Commerce.

• 1870-1877 - Alessandro Fè d'Ostiani (ambassador)

• 1873-1890 - Photographer Adolfo Farsari had a significant influence on the development of photography in Japan.

• 1875-1891[1898] - Edoardo Chiossone (director of the Ministry of Finance's Paper and Securities Workshop)

• 1876-1878 - Painter Antonio Fontanesi became rector and head of the art department of the Tokyo Technical School of Fine Arts

• 1876-1882 - Sculptor Vincenzo Ragusa played a significant role in the development of modern Japanese sculpture

• 1876 - Vincenzo Cappelletti designed the Yūshūkan military museum.

• 1877-1882 - Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani (ambassador)

• 1884-1888 - Pompeo Grillo worked at the Osaka foundry

• 1885-1890 - Alessandro Paternostro (legal advisor to the Ministry of Justice)

• 1889-1890 - Major Quaatesi worked at the Osaka foundry

• 1892-1893 - Major Scipione Braccialini taught ballistics.

1900s (I)

• 1908-1915 - Alessandro Guiccioli (ambassador)

• 1915-1917 - Fausto Cucchi Boasso (ambassador)

• 1916-1921 - Pietro Fumasoni Biondi (nuncio)

• 1917-1920 - Luigi Girolamo Cusani-Confalonieri (ambassador)

• 1919 (Nov 26) - Nunciature to Japan (established)

• 1920-1922 - Carlo Maria Alberto Aliotti (ambassador)

• 1920 - Pilots Guido Masiero and Arturo Ferrarin, together with their engine drivers Roberto Maretto and Gino Capannini, successfully completed the 'Rome-Tokyo Raid"-- the first air link between Europe and Japan.

• 1921-1931 - Mario Giardini (nuncio)

• 1922-1925 - Giacomo De Martino (ambassador)

• 1926-1965 - Vincenzo Cimatti (Salesian priest)

• 1928-1930 - Pompeo Aloisi (ambassador)

• 1930-1933 - Giovanni Cesare Majoni (ambassador)

• 1933-1940 - Giacinto Auriti (ambassador)

• 1933-1948 - Paolo Marella (nuncio)

• 1938-1946 - Anthropologist Fosco Maraini taught in Japan; being interned after 1943.

• 1940 - Signing of the Tripartite Pact--alliance between Germany-Italy and Japan.

• 1940-1946 - Mario Indelli (ambassador), interned after 1943.

1950s

• 1957-1965 - Arrigo Pola, artistic director of the Fujiwara Opera

• 1980-1984 - Boris Biancheri (ambassador)

2000s

• 2005-2011 - Alberto Bottari de Castello (nuncio)

• 2006-present - Laura Imai Messina (writer)

• 2017-2021 - Giorgio Starace (ambassador)

• 2021-2023 - Leo Boccardi (nuncio)

• 2021- Gianluigi Benedetti (ambassador)

Apostolic Nuncios

• Pietro Fumasoni Biondi † (14 Nov 1916 Appointed - Mar 1921 Resigned)
• Mario Giardini, B. † (21 Nov 1921 Appointed - 16 May 1931 Appointed, Archbishop of Ancona e Numana)
• <Edward Aloysius Mooney> † (30 Mar 1931 Appointed - 28 Aug 1933 Appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Rochester, New York)
• Paolo Marella † (30 Oct 1933 Appointed - 27 Oct 1948 Appointed, Apostolic Delegate to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania)
• <Maximilien de Fürstenberg> † (22 Mar 1949 Appointed - 21 Nov 1959 Appointed, Apostolic Delegate to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania)
• Domenico Enrici † (5 Jan 1960 Appointed - 1 Oct 1962 Appointed, Apostolic Delegate to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania)
• Mario Cagna † (13 Oct 1962 Appointed - 17 Sep 1966 Appointed, Apostolic Delegate to Yugoslavia)
• Bruno Wüstenberg † (24 Oct 1966 Appointed - 19 Dec 1973 Appointed, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire)
• Ippolito Rotoli † (10 Jan 1974 Appointed - 4 Oct 1977 Died)
• Mario Pio Gaspari † (16 Nov 1977 Appointed - 23 Jun 1983 Died)
• <William Aquin Carew> † (30 Aug 1983 Appointed - 11 Nov 1997 Retired)
• Ambrose Battista De Paoli † (11 Nov 1997 Appointed - 18 Dec 2004 Appointed, Apostolic Nuncio to Australia)
• Alberto Bottari de Castello (1 Apr 2005 Appointed - 6 Jun 2011 Appointed, Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary)
• <Joseph Chennoth> † (15 Aug 2011 Appointed - 8 Sep 2020 Died)
• Leo Boccardi (11 Mar 2021 Appointed - 1 Sep 2023 Retired)