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Cape Ashizuri, located in Tosashimizu City, Kochi Prefecture, juts out into the Pacific Ocean. It's part of Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park.
The rock formations known as Usubae, located west of the cape, are the first point in the Japanese archipelago where the Kuroshio Current reaches shore.

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The Ashizuri Cape Lighthouse, located on the cliffs of Cape Ashizuri, is 18 meters high, boasts a luminous intensity of 2 million candelas, and a range of 38 km.
The landform, formed by the repeated upheaval and subsidence of a granite plateau and erosion by the rough waves of the Pacific Ocean, truly exemplifies the "beauty sculpted by the Kuroshio Current."
John Manjiro was born in 1827 as the second son of a poor fisherman in Nakahama, Tosa, near Cape Ashizuri, in what is now Tosashimizu City, Kochi Prefecture.
In 1841, at the age of 14, Manjiro was shipwrecked while fishing with his companions. After drifting for several days, they washed ashore on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean.
143 days after being stranded, Manjiro and his companions were rescued by the American whaling ship John Howland.
Japan was closed to the outside world at the time, and even if they were able to return home, there was no guarantee of their lives.
Captain Whitfield dropped off the four crew members, excluding Manjiro, in the safe harbor of Hawaii, but the captain took a liking to Manjiro and wanted to take him to America, asking Manjiro if he wanted to go.
Manjiro also wanted to go to America, so he decided to go with the captain. At this time, he was given the nickname John Mann, after the ship's name.

Manjiro was adopted by the captain and lived with him in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He studied hard at school, achieving top marks in English, mathematics, surveying, navigation, and shipbuilding.
Deciding to return to his home country, Manjiro headed to the gold mines of California, where the gold rush was booming. He used the money he earned there to join his shipmates in Hawaii. He then made preparations to return home and set sail for Japan.
Manjiro landed in the Ryukyu Islands (present-day Okinawa Prefecture) in 1851, but was subjected to prolonged interrogation by the Satsuma domain and the Nagasaki Magistrate's Office. After returning to Japan in 1853, he was finally able to return to his hometown of Tosa about two years later.

He then became a professor at the domain school, Kyojukan, located under Kochi Castle. He was invited by the shogunate to Edo, where he became a direct retainer. Manjiro worked tirelessly in translation and interpretation, shipbuilding supervision, and human resource development.
In 1860, Manjiro served as an interpreter and technical instructor on the Kanrin Maru, an escort ship for a delegation traveling to the United States to exchange instruments of ratification for the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and the United States.
This warship, the Kanrin Maru, also carried many historically important figures, including Captain Katsu Kaishu and Yukichi Fukuzawa.

In 1870, Manjiro was sent to Europe as part of an inspection team for the Franco-Prussian War, and while staying in New York, he was reunited with his benefactor, Captain Whitfield, for the first time in about 20 years.

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