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By Michael Mainelli From English samurai Miura Anjin to last year’s Hiroshima Accord, the UK and Japan have much to offer each other, writes Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli Miura Anjin is one of Japan’s most well-known samurais. Born in 1564, his talents were endless: navigator, shipbuilding, gunnery, mathematics, geography, trade negotiation and trusted adviser to the Japanese Regent, Tokugawa Ieyasu. His skills were utilised to encourage traders around the world to visit Japan. Miura Anjin was also an Englishman, from Kent, called William Adams, who became Japan’s first known western samurai and…

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