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Jujiro Wada
Jujiro Wada (Japanese: Wada Jujiro) (ca. 1872-5 March 1937) was a Japanese adventurer and entrepreneur who achieved fame for his exploits in turn-of-the-20th-century Alaska and Yukon Territory.
==Early life==
According to his own account, Wada was born on February 12, 1872,〔County of San Diego--Standard Certificate of Death #37-023109, filed March 11, 1937.〕 in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, to wealthy parents. Wada said that he arrived in San Francisco in late 1891, and that his purpose of traveling to the United States was to attend Yale University.〔Cotter, Frank. "Ju Wada As I Knew Him," ''Japanese-American Courier,'' July 3, 1937, p 2.〕
Researcher Yuji Tani provides an alternative story. According to Tani, Wada was born on January 6, 1875, in Komatsu, Ehime Prefecture. He was the second son of a former samurai fallen on hard times, and his father died when Jujiro was four. Subsequently, Jujiro and his mother went to live with his mother's relatives in what is today Matsuyama City. In 1886, when he was 13 or 14 years of age (by Japanese counting, which would mean 12 or 13 by American), Jujiro went to work at Toda-Seishi Company, which was a local paper factory. In 1890, he went to work for the Yamaya Transport Company in Mitsuhama. Meanwhile, he heard tales about the fabulous wealth of America.〔Miyahara, Fumiko. "The tale of the Yukon's dog-mushing Samurai," ''Yukon News,'' March 13, 1996, 14, summarizing the Japanese-language ''Orora ni kakeru samurai'' (Samurai Who Ran to the Northern Lights) by Yuji Tani. Japan: Yama to Keikoku, 1995; Ronald Inouye, "Jujiro Wada: musher, long distance runner, and Fairbanks co-founder?" ''Fairbanks News-Miner'', September 13, 2009, http://newsminer.com/news/2009/sep/13/jujiro-wada-musher-long-distance-runner-and-fairba/〕
According to subsequent US immigration data, Wada took a steamship to San Francisco in March 1890.〔Ancestry.com. Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Arrival date September 6, 1920, age 46, born about 1874, in Iyo, Japan.〕 However, according to his own account, he stowed away aboard a ship out of Kobe in 1891.〔
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