Sacheita Yokoi (1845-1877) and Daihei Yokoi (1850-1871) travelled from Japan to New Brunswick, New Jersey in the late 1860's under the assumed names of Sataro Ise and Saburo Numagawa, respectively, as part of the first wave of Japanese students to the enter the United States. The brothers were the first Japanese students to enter the Rutgers College Grammar School.
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Foreign study
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Japanese students
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Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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Meiji period, (1868-1912)
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Rutgers College Grammar School
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UNITED STATES
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New Jersey
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Middlesex County
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New Brunswick (N.J.)
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JAPAN
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Photographs from the William Elliot Griffis Collection
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MC1015 Photograph Box 5
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Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. William Elliot Griffis Collection.