Who is the first Japanese person to visit UK, and what year is it?

My question is: "Who is the first Japanese person who was visited UK in history."

Bernard of Kagoshima

1550

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Yet if curiosity had been the primary attraction, it is hard to explain the massive indifference that greeted Bernard of Kagoshima, the first Japanese to visit Europe in the 1550s. Bernard had been one of Francis Xavier's first Japanese converts, and like the emissaries at the close of the century, he was sent to Europe by the Jesuits to be an example of "the new and miraculous fruit of the Holy Church" as well as to see Europe with his own eyes so that he might tell his countrymen about it upon his return to Japan.


If it has to be England :
Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men, only known by their Christian names, who are recorded to have travelled across the Pacific on a Spanish galleon in 1587, and later accompanied the English navigator Thomas Cavendish to England, Brazil and the Southern Atlantic, where they disappeared with the sinking of his ship in 1592.

Ghengis Khan, he arrived in a steamship full of dancing geisha girls in Southampton in 1963. I remember taking one home for my mum to see ,but all I got was a thick ear and a kick up the **** for trying it on.

My best guess at the moment, from this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasekura_Ts...

Not sure if he ever set foot in the UK though, but he visited most of continental Europe between 1613-1620 and has to be a front-runner.

Also a possible contender, is this guy, in the 1580s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancio_Ito

Are you asking who is the first Japanese person to visit UK this year? That would be difficult to answer, but the year is 2008 AD.

I don't know, its 2008

Travel to the UK from the Orient has been documented back thousands of years. I think it would not be possible to name the person or the date.