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.

• 1886 - Beginning of diplomatic relations with the signing of the first treaty of Friendship and Commerce.

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

• 1872 - Edoardo Chiossone (director of the Ministry of Finance's Paper and Securities Workshop)

• 1876 - Painter Antonio Fontanesi, sculptor Vincenzo Ragusa and architect Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti were invited by the Japanese government. Fontanesi became rector and head of the art department of the Tokyo Technical School of Fine Arts; Ragusa played a significant role in the development of modern Japanese sculpture, , while 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.

• 1908-1915 - Alessandro Guiccioli (ambassador)

• 1915-1917 - Fausto Cucchi Boasso (ambassador)

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

• 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.

• 1922-1925 - Giacomo De Martino (ambassador)

• 1928-1930 - Pompeo Aloisi (ambassador)

• 1930-1933 - Giovanni Cesare Majoni (ambassador)

• 1933-1940 - Giacinto Auriti (ambassador)

• 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.

• 1980-1984 - Boris Biancheri (ambassador)

• 2017-2021 - Giorgio Starace (ambassador)

• 2021- Gianluigi Benedetti (ambassador)