* * * I would like to thank Vaibhav Chaturvedi, B Nethaji and Vineet Srivastava for valuable inputs, as well as my co-authors, Tim Eisert, Christian Eufinger and Christian Hirsch (parts of the Japanese and the European stories are based on joint work with them). All errors remain my own. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Reserve Bank of India.
Also, I’m certain that he wasted no time in attending a Yankee game, whose history in New York started just two years earlier. The year 1905 was roughly half a century after the establishment of formal diplomatic relationship between the United States and Japan, and by then the number of Japanese citizens in New York had started to pick up.