Ending the War

By David Silbey. In 1945, as World War II ended in the Pacific, people turned to reestablishing small things:
That day the commander of the British Landing Force and two other officers visited the grave of Will Adams at the nearby village of Hammamate. Adams, who was born at Gillingham, near Chatham, in 1575, was the first Englishman to land in Japan and lived there from 1600 until his death in 1620. More...