Mexican ship arrives at Yokohama port to mark 400 years of ties

Thursday 28th May, 05:43 AM JST

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grafton at 09:22 AM JST - 28th May

How come this ship hasn’t been put into quarantine?
Noripinhead at 10:03 AM JST - 28th May

So after 400 years why aren't there any good Mexican restaurants in Japan?
Samuraiiki at 10:18 AM JST - 28th May

It is probably the Mexican dude who drifted into Japan from a shipwrekc 400 years ago and he was cared for the Japanese, thus establishing the 400 years of the first Mexican into Japan. anybody has a better story?
GJDailleult at 10:35 AM JST - 28th May

It was a Spanish vessel heading to Mexico that shipwrecked - not a Mexican vessel.
tasha77 at 10:48 AM JST - 28th May

And the captain had a runny nose and the rest of the crew were coughing and sneezing all over the place......not true but just a thought that would close down the port for a week.
jikku67 at 11:03 AM JST - 28th May

From this web site: http://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/syozoku/bkokusaie/friendship/mexico.html

In September of 1609 (Keichou 14), the San Fransisco, a Spanish galleon bound from the Philippines to Mexico (both were parts of the Spanish Empire at that time), met with a storm and ran aground off the coast of nowadays Onjuku Town. The ship was carrying 373 people, including Don Rodrigo de Vivero, the former interim governor of the Phillipines who had just finished serving his term of duty there. The Onjuku villagers who witnessed the wreck, though it was their first time seeing a foreign shipwreck, bravely rescued the sailors and nursed them back to health, beginning a long tradition of exchange between Japan and Mexico.
Nessie at 11:31 AM JST - 28th May

Thanks, GJ, I was wondering about that. Short of time travel, it could not have been a Mexican ship. And thanks, Jikku.
Samuraiiki at 11:56 AM JST - 28th May

I say, subtract two hundred years of isolation and only becomes 200 years of the anniversary of the shipwreck, not of friendship.
OneForAll at 12:34 PM JST - 28th May

Spain and the Mexican trade. Time of William Adams (an Englishman), first white samurai (Yasuke, an African, was the first foreign samurai who served with Nobunaga)... I heard Japan wanted a piece of the action and Spain refused the request and then Japan closed it borders in 1639, 90 years after the Jesuits landed. Had Japan insisted, a good part of America might have been occupied by the Japanese.
thundercat at 12:41 PM JST - 28th May

Noripinhead,

Try Junkadelic in Naka-Meguro.
elbudamexicano at 01:09 PM JST - 28th May

400 years and most of Tokyo has no decent MEXICAN food! Thank god my mother is Mexican and will bring good Mexican ingrediants for her starving son out here on these islands that makes me feel like a Jesuit for 400 years waiting for some good, fresh warm hand made tortillas!

Moderator: Back on topic please.
dennis0bauer at 03:12 PM JST - 28th May

So were the villigars punished by the shogun?
Tezbo at 07:27 PM JST - 28th May

What ever, it is just good that the relationship is good and I have met the Mexican Ambassador and he is a good man with a wonderful personality, plus I am Texican, and have found a Super Place near the Turkey Embassy, but it is costly.

Viva Mexico/Japon Tezbo
boppintheblues at 01:49 AM JST - 29th May

There is a mexican taco place in Harajuku very near Takashita st. It's called Tacos De Amigo. This is where the Mexican sailors will dine at.
Fadamor at 03:10 AM JST - 29th May

Grafton: The ship wasn't quarantined because the simple act of transiting the Pacific exceeded the incubation time of the virus. Anybody who had the virus when they left Mexico have already gotten sick and recovered before they arrived in Japanese waters. Air and Rail travel are the real threats for spreading influenza and those vectors are where quarantines are most effective.

Re: food. I don't understand why someone would go to a foreign country and then eat the same stuff they have at home. When I visit Japan, one thing I will NOT be doing is stopping in at a McDonald's. There so much more in Japan to try that I WON'T be able to eat when I return home.