After the enforced opening of Yokohama to foreign trade, Edward, who in the 1850s had served in the Prussian Army and spoke Malay, must have arrived in Japan no later than 1862, as he had a 7-year-old boy from his Japanese wife Kawai Tsugonusuke in 1869. He is also listed as owner of plot "No.
After the forced opening of Yokohama to foreign trade, Edward, who served in the Prussian Army during the 1850s and knew Malay, must have arrived in Japan no later than 1862, as he had a 7-year-old son from his Japanese wife Kawai Tsugonusuke in 1869. He is also listed as the owner of plot "No."