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.
Following the mandated opening of Yokohama for foreign trade, Edward, who served in the Prussian Army during the 1850s and spoke Malay, must have arrived in Japan by no later than 1862, when he had a son from his Japanese wife Kawai Tsugonusuke. He is also recorded as owning plot "No."