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Events in the year 1837 in Japan.
Incumbents
Events
- July – Morrison incident: A US ship is fired on by cannon when entering Tokyo Bay while attempting to repatriate castaway Japanese citizens.
- Tenpō famine which began in 1833 comes to an end.
Births
- 28 October – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1913)
References
- Shillony, Ben-Ami (2008). The Emperors of Modern Japan. BRILL. p. 317. ISBN 978-90-04-16822-0.
- Drury, Clifford M. (1945). "Early American Contacts with the Japanese". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 36 (4): 319–330. ISSN 0030-8803. JSTOR 40732703. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- Holm, Fynn (24 August 2023). The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019. Cambridge University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-009-30551-8.
- Shimamoto, Mayako; Ito, Koji; Sugita, Yoneyuki (1 July 2015). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 297–298. ISBN 978-1-4422-5067-3.
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