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  1. Kabayama Aisuke (樺山 愛輔, June 3, 1865 – October 21, 1953) was a Japanese businessman and privy counselor. [1] Kabayama was the son of Yosaburo Hashiguchi, a samurai of the Kagoshima clan. He was adopted by Sukenori Kabayama, a navy admiral.

  2. Description. Son of Yosaburo Hashiguchi, a samurai of the Kagoshima clan. He was adopted by Sukenori Kabayama, a navy admiral. After learning at Dojinsha and Kanda Kyoritsu Gakko, he went over to the U.S. in 1880.

  3. Apr 13, 2018 · If you just glanced at the photo of the 1886 Wesleyan University varsity baseball team, you might miss him. But he's there, in the upper left corner, leaning against a tree: Aisuke Kabayama, shortstop and the earliest known Japanese-born person to play college baseball in the United States.

  4. Thanks to an appeal from inaugural I-House chairman Aisuke Kabayama and a call for donations by the Bank of Japan Governor Hisato Ichimada—who chaired the fundraising committee—contributions were made by more than 7,000 corporations and over 5,000 individuals from all over Japan, from political and business leaders to experts in the arts ...

  5. Oct 13, 2018 · Among the players was Count Aisuke Kabayama. Photo: Aisuke Kabayama, shortstop with the varsity baseball team at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1886. Soon after, he was appointed head of railways at the Shimbashi Railway Bureau, and Hiraoka formed a club known as the Shimbashi Club (Shimbashi Athletic Club), which played at ...

  6. Kabayama Aisuke (left) and Matsumoto Shigeharu. Feeling the Rockefeller Foundation’s support for such projects indispensable, Rockefeller hurried back to Tokyo and met with Japanese intellectuals including Kabayama Aisuke to develop the concept for a “culture center” in Tokyo.

  7. Sep 4, 2019 · And the admiral’s son—Chris’s great-grandfather—Kabayama “Kabby” Aisuke graduated from Amherst in 1889 and later received an honorary doctorate from the College; he worked to strengthen U.S.-Japanese relations and to promote an image of Japan as moderate and modern.